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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 scalability of the solution is fantastic. It's one of our favorite features."
"The scalability of Amazon EC2 is good. However, the stability can depend on what service I am using."
"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 bring up servers and then do the computation and deposit means we don't have to maintain a data center. Everything is virtual and the security is also taken care of. It helps us to achieve compliance. Being a small startup with the security features that AWS provides helps us with compliance."
"Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."
"What we have found most valuable is that we have not lost stability in the program."
"One of the most valuable features of EC2 is its accessibility; I can easily access it through various tools like GIT and use it on mobile devices."
"The product is easy to set up."
"Visually, this is a good product."
"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."
"The user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."
"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."
"The initial setup is very easy. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one point is difficult, and ten points are easy."
"It is highly effective for handling real-time data by working with APIs for immediate and continuous data extraction."
"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
 

Cons

"Built-in and/or integration with other services to proactively identify potential failures before they occur."
"Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price."
"The only issue with EC2 is that it makes it difficult to install an LLS certificate on your WordPress website that you have deployed inside that virtual machine. That becomes complicated."
"Amazon EC2 is very expensive, and it would be helpful if they decreased the pricing."
"Amazon EC2 could improve its dashboards and UI, they need to be more user-friendly."
"We're expecting to have Graviton instances. Graviton means it's not internal, it's a low-cost instance. At present time, Graviton is not supported for a few packages."
"We have had some downtime using the solution."
"An area needing improvement is the time limitations when accessing EC2 instances."
"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."
"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."
"The use case templates could be more precise to typical business needs."
"More features must be added to the product."
"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
"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."
"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."
"The tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The use of Amazon EC2 does not incur any licensing fees."
"Amazon EC2 is a very expensive solution."
"The price can be improved."
"Amazon EC2 has a pay-as-you-use cost model."
"It's competitive but can vary based on instance types and usage patterns."
"The license fee for Amazon EC2 is higher than its competitors."
"We are paying about $1,500 a month for one of the services."
"The solution has different pricing models, and its cost differs when you purchase it for one year or three years."
"It's an open-source solution."
"We use the free version of Apache NiFi."
"The solution is open-source."
"I used the tool's free version."
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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

By reviewers
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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