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AWS Auto Scaling vs Akamai mPulse comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai mPulse
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
56th
Average Rating
6.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
AWS Auto Scaling
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
14th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Akamai mPulse is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Auto Scaling is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Auto Scaling0.5%
Akamai mPulse0.6%
Other98.9%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Arivu Arumugam - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within
There is little that's unique about mPulse but since the solution is part of Akamai, you can do dynamic injections from within the product which is a great feature. the UI is quite good. It offers a basic set of features but nothing unique other than that as part of Akamai, you can do dynamic injections.
AmitMishra1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops And Ui Tech Lead at Jash Data Sciences
Automatic scaling has reduced costs and handles unpredictable traffic spikes for critical APIs
From my experience, the best features AWS Auto Scaling offers include target tracking scaling, which is very easy to configure. It also integrates with CloudWatch metrics, which is very important, and provides scheduled scaling, which helps some organizations. Two of my clients are using that. Predictive scaling for known traffic patterns and seamless integration with ALBs, ECS, and EC2 are also my favorite features of AWS Auto Scaling. Out of those features, target tracking scaling has saved me the most time and effort, making it my favorite feature. I find predictive scaling useful but in real-world scenarios, we rely more on dynamic scaling. AWS Auto Scaling has positively impacted my organization as it simplifies scaling decisions. I just need to define our target, such as CPU percentage, and AWS Auto Scaling handles everything. There is no need to fine-tune complex scaling rules, which has helped a lot. It has also significantly improved system reliability and reduced costs, as we no longer worry about sudden traffic spikes and we are not overpaying for idle resources. This has saved us significant costs, estimating around 25 to 30 percent after fine-tuning the scaling policy.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We are a worldwide company and we need to have a solution with good performance which the solution is providing us with; it has helped our company."
"The most valuable feature is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."
"It’s a very good product for performance tracking, I haven’t used many others, so I can’t comment on a competitive level."
"There's a good relationship between the price and the licences."
"There is little that's unique about mPulse but since the solution is part of Akamai, you can do dynamic injections from within the product which is a great feature."
"Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great."
"It provides a great overview for management regarding user experience."
"It provides real-time monitoring for performance and availability of specific portions of the website without a significant data overhead."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to select a minimum amount of active servers so that a new server automatically launches if one fails."
"I like the graphs provided by the tool."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it scales automatically without manual intervention based on the metrics we provide."
"When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements."
"I would highly recommend Auto Scaling to others because it is a fantastic feature that simplifies scaling processes and makes deployment efficient."
"AWS Auto Scaling is cost-effective and very useful for businesses."
"AWS Auto Scaling is very good for managing traffic and creating new instances when necessary."
"Once we moved them to AWS and created the appropriate architecture, it solved the problem."
 

Cons

"In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."
"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there."
"Scalability to larger volume of data seems to be hit or miss."
"They work very well, only thing is they need more time to improve and fix all the issues."
"The solution didn't help us much and that's the reason we never used mPulse on a full scale and why we chose to go with Dynatrace."
"It needs a more intuitive GUI and more customization options."
"It has latency issues. It depends on the distribution used, whether it's Amazon Linux, Windows Linux, etc. Occasionally, there are latency issues, which might lead to slower performance."
"Setting up the configuration involves too much work for the cloud engineer, like configuring the ALB, the target group, and all the steps."
"The product’s security features need improvement."
"AWS Auto Scaling's documentation could be better."
"It requires a downtime before deploying the Auto Scaling group."
"It could be cheaper."
"There hasn't been a need for improvements."
"Flexibility in configuring the workload is missing in AWS Auto Scaling."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."
"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."
"The product is expensive."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."
"The product has moderate pricing."
"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Retailer
6%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Educational Organization
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise11
 

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What do you like most about AWS Auto Scaling?
The tool's most valuable feature is vertical auto-scaling, which is easy to use. However, most companies now prefer horizontal scaling. I set up the health check integration to monitor CPU usage. W...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Auto Scaling?
I'm not sure about the pricing aspect of AWS Auto Scaling or the cost of it.
What needs improvement with AWS Auto Scaling?
I'm not really sure what improvements I would want to see in AWS Auto Scaling because I haven't really used it extensively or explored most of it. To the extent that I've used it so far, I think it...
 

Also Known As

SOASTA mPulse
AWS Auto-Scaling
 

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Sample Customers

Nordstrom, Gatwick, DirecTV, MSN, SquareSpace, SAP, Lenovo, Hallmark, myspace, Intuit, Kentucky Derby, Toys "R" Us, Netflix, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Lowe's, Nike, REI, Apple, Sears, Verizon, Wendy's, Huawei
Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
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