Amazon EC2 vs Apache NiFi comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apache are both solutions in the Compute Service category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.6, while Apache is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.6. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 6.5% mindshare in CS, compared to Apache’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Apache users who would recommend it.

Amazon EC2

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98% willing to recommend

Apache NiFi

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2,418 Views
1,132 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Apache NiFi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EC2

Ranking in Compute Service

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Apache NiFi

Ranking in Compute Service

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 is 6.5%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apache NiFi is 7.9%, up from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Julius Mboya

Chief technical officer at Solvezy Technology Kenya Limited

Ensures we can provision resources on demand, and we can grow and shrink them as per the traffic

We faced a challenge in regard to billing. There was a time when we were working on changing the mode of payment from card to wire. It took a lot of time because our state is set up in Kenya, so we needed to pay in Kenya currency. We have to go around in circles. There was a lot of documentation required, but we managed to go through successfully.

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Bruno_Silva

Partner at Timestamp, SA

Very easy to schedule jobs that realize improvements and monetize

The use case templates could be more precise to typical business needs. Available templates and model workflows are very high-level so don't really match real needs. It would help to have templates that allow us to see business opportunities. It would help to be able to copy workflow to another device rather than having to ingest it.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"EC2 provides a lot of flexibility. If you don't want to have a separate on-premise database, you can put it on the cloud with EC2. You can adjust the instance type according to your needs. You select a size and get a certain amount of specific memory, CPUs, etc. You set the redirect limit, and from there, you install the software, database servers, application servers, and whatever you want."

"The product is very mature and organized."

"All of my lower maintenance overheads are taken care of. I don't have to worry about it."

"What I found most valuable in Amazon EC2 is that you only pay for what you use, versus an on-premise deployment that requires you to pay for the cost of the server. When it's on-premise, you'll need to meet more specifications and requirements, and the purchasing process even takes time. As Amazon EC2 is cloud-based, you'll only pay when you use the service."

"The Key Management Service (KMS) feature is very helpful for security. It encrypts the data that is being saved. Cloud storage is also very helpful, and it could be AWS S3, which a lot of people use."

"An advantage of Amazon is that it offers a wide range of infrastructure services with an easy way to configure them."

"Amazon EC2 allows us to create different regions and availability zones based upon application needs."

"The ethernet configuration is stable and the product is reliable."

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"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."

"It's an automated flow, where you can build a flow from source to destination, then do the transformation in between."

"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."

"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."

"The user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"Visually, this is a good product."

"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."

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Cons

"One of the challenges is the AMI upgrades."

"I would like to see more variety in the operating system images used to create test environments in EC2. There should be more versions and releases. Sometimes, you want to test an update from an old release to a higher version, but you can’t do that with the new images available. You have to use your own."

"The price could be better, and it could be more affordable. Because I run my own servers, the prices are quite high."

"I would like to see improvement in the information available up-front for users around tailoring the package to their actual requirements. At present it can take time to work with the on demand instance until you are used to what features are right for the user."

"The initial setup could be easier because many keys are required for access."

"The solution’s pricing and downtimes could be improved."

"Amazon EC2 could improve the stability."

"The product could benefit from offering more mixed instance types that combine features from different series to suit diverse workload requirements better."

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"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."

"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."

"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."

"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."

"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 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."

"The use case templates could be more precise to typical business needs."

"More features must be added to the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price can be improved."

"The price is reasonable, but there is definitely an opportunity to lower it in instances which are of a higher configuration, because they have been typically used for the long term."

"I am using the tier three Amazon service. I am not going to use another solution other than Amazon EC2 because here in Pakistan there are some payment issues for solutions abroad."

"The solution has different pricing models, and its cost differs when you purchase it for one year or three years."

"There is a license required to use this solution and we pay on a monthly basis."

"For our usage, the cost is approximately $20,000 to $23,000 per month."

"The pricing of this solution is variable. There is an open-source variant that is accessible via the public cloud, and then tiers that range in price depending on the level and amount of usage that is required."

"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."

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"We use the free version of Apache NiFi."

"It's an open-source solution."

"I used the tool's free version."

"The solution is open-source."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EC2?

We are paying about $1,500 a month for one of the services. I'd rate the pricing as six out of ten for being expensive.

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What needs improvement with Amazon EC2?

The pricing model could be improved. We found Amazon EC2 to be pricey.

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What do you like most about Apache NiFi?

The initial setup is very easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache NiFi?

I used the tool's free version.

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What needs improvement with Apache NiFi?

The tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases.

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Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2

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Overview

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate them from common failure scenarios.

Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic.

Sample Customers

Netflix, Expedia, TimeInc., Novaris, airbnb, Lamborghini

Macquarie Telecom Group, Dovestech, Slovak Telekom, Looker, Hastings Group

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