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Amazon EC2 vs Apache NiFi comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EC2
Ranking in Compute Service
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Apache NiFi
Ranking in Compute Service
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 is 6.3%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apache NiFi is 7.9%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

KatlegoMabila - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers customization and flexibility with great support
Scalability depends on whether the client wants to scale up or scale down. It decreases resources based on demand. The great aspect of scalability is the flexibility to allow business success to optimize resource solutions and cost efficiency. Another crucial aspect of scalability is auto-scaling. When you have the opportunity to auto-scale, it can't always be available for everything. If you have chosen to integrate with auto-scaling, it's marvellous and doesn't require additional effort. Auto-scaling gives you the edge by using the capacity you have efficiently, scaling up or down as needed. These flexibilities within the EC2 feature instances of AWS play a crucial role in helping me utilize AWS EC2 Intelligent efficiently.
Bharghava Raghavendra Beesa - PeerSpot reviewer
The tool enables effective data transformation and integration
There are some areas for improvement, particularly with record-level tasks that take a bit of time. The quality of JSON data processing could be improved, as JSON workloads require manual conversions without a specific process. Enhancing features related to alerting would be helpful, including mobile alerts for pipeline issues. Integration with mobile devices for error alerts would simplify information delivery.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is autoscaling."
"EC2 is flexible when we need to increase its resources (memory, boosting, and storage) based on our usage. That is the power of EC2."
"Amazon EC2 is really reliable and provides great flexibility."
"The amount of bandwidth has been most valuable."
"An advantage of Amazon is that it offers a wide range of infrastructure services with an easy way to configure them."
"My company uses the tool for cloud monitoring. We have a production, staging, deployment, and testing environment in AWS. However, we do not use the managed service of AWS yet. My team uses the required parameters for security like VPC, firewall, gates of security as well as the external layer of the app."
"The ability to quickly spin up instances on demand with zero upfront costs or infrastructure is the most valuable for me."
"The scalability and elasticity are helpful."
"Apache NiFi is user-friendly. Its most valuable features for handling large volumes of data include its multitude of integrated endpoints and clients and the ability to create cron jobs to run tasks at regular intervals."
"Visually, this is a good product."
"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
"It is highly effective for handling real-time data by working with APIs for immediate and continuous data extraction."
"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."
"The user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It's an automated flow, where you can build a flow from source to destination, then do the transformation in between."
 

Cons

"Lacks sufficient tools to help users minimize their costs."
"The product could benefit from offering more mixed instance types that combine features from different series to suit diverse workload requirements better."
"I would like to see as much automation for data validation as possible in the future."
"Pricing-wise, it is a bit high."
"Regional acceleration could improve. If I am hosting a website and I want the experience to be faster they should have this feature to allow for increased speeds."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by having integration with other cloud systems, such as Azure, and Google Cloud which would be good. Additionally, having integration with on-premise systems would be appreciated."
"The IP changes whenever we restart which is frustrating."
"EC2 is a little expensive."
"There is room for improvement in integration with SSO. For example, NiFi does not have any integration with SSO. And if I want to give some kind of rollback access control across the organization. That is not possible."
"The overall stability of this solution could be improved. In a future release, we would like to have access to more features that could be used in a parallel way. This would provide more freedom with processing."
"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."
"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"The use case templates could be more precise to typical business needs."
"The tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases."
"We run many jobs, and there are already large tables. When we do not control NiFi on time, all reports fail for the day. So it's pretty slow to control, and it has to be improved."
"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the free tier, although I have paid for some services that are not free. The overall cost of this solution depends on the services you use."
"The tool's pricing is not cheap."
"It has helped to reduce costs with infrastructure."
"Amazon EC2 is a very expensive solution."
"There is a license required to use this solution and we pay on a monthly basis."
"We are paying about $1,500 a month for one of the services."
"Reducing the price of the solution could lead to an improvement."
"The use of Amazon EC2 does not incur any licensing fees."
"The solution is open-source."
"We use the free version of Apache NiFi."
"I used the tool's free version."
"It's an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Retailer
6%
University
6%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon EC2?
The scalability and elasticity are helpful.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EC2?
I'm going to mention again that there is quite a bit of complexity within the pricing of EC2 instances. I'm just going to give it six out of ten since there are various standards, upfront and commi...
What needs improvement with Amazon EC2?
There is not much to be improved or enhanced. One of the things that need to be looked into is the complex pricing, which is rather intense. Sometimes, clients don't understand the structures. Thes...
What needs improvement with Apache NiFi?
There are some areas for improvement, particularly with record-level tasks that take a bit of time. The quality of JSON data processing could be improved, as JSON workloads require manual conversio...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2
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Sample Customers

Netflix, Expedia, TimeInc., Novaris, airbnb, Lamborghini
Macquarie Telecom Group, Dovestech, Slovak Telekom, Looker, Hastings Group
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