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 8.8, while Apache is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.6. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 6.0% mindshare in CS, compared to Apache’s 7.8% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Apache users who would recommend it.

Amazon EC2

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98% willing to recommend

Apache NiFi

Read 12 Apache NiFi reviews

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912 Comparison Views

91% 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 March 2025, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 is 6.0%, down from 7.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apache NiFi is 7.8%, up from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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KatlegoMabila

Senior AWS Account Manager at Silicon Overdrive

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.

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Bharghava Raghavendra Beesa

Senior Developer at Infosys

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.

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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

"I would recommend this solution to others who want to start using it."

"This is a user-friendly solution."

"The tool's performance, reliability, security and flexibility are good. We can use it remotely. The autoscaling functionality of EC2 is quite good. I appreciate the DevOps suite for tracking development tasks. This functionality is important for pure software development."

"Amazon EC2's flexibility and ease of configuration were found to be very valuable."

"The most valuable features of Amazon EC2 are ease of use and the services offered."

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

"The most valuable feature is EC2 is scalable, so when you want to move to market, you don't need to wait until your provision is fast, you can just go and provision it and then easily install your application."

"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."

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

"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."

"Visually, this is a good product."

"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."

"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."

"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."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"One of the things that need to be looked into is the complex pricing, which is rather intense."

"Amazon EC2 could improve the console view. The ability to see the console view directly would be helpful, similar to what VMware has. Additionally, when the system is rebooting we are able to see a screenshot of the UI, but it would be a lot better if we could interact directly with the console level."

"The availability and response time of the free technical support can be improved."

"An area for improvement in Amazon EC2 is the cost because it's a bit higher than competitor pricing."

"Currently in the autoscaling process if we have multiple issues we are not able to connect some of the VPC through the SMS."

"They should fix the key pair name functionality and provide the ability to assign multiple key pair names to an EC2 instance. It is a key pair feature, and it provides you the ability to actually log into the server. It is basically like a password. In terms of new features, it should have the ability to increase and decrease the instance size based on certain times of the day. We should be able to do this without turning off the EC2 instance. Currently, you have to turn it off and then turn it back on. It should also have HTTPS or SSL integration."

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"The quality of JSON data processing could be improved, as JSON workloads require manual conversions without a specific process."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The clients have found the billing of Amazon EC2 good, but the price could be less high. There is a monthly subscription to use the solution."

"It's competitive but can vary based on instance types and usage patterns."

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

"The use of Amazon EC2 does not incur any licensing fees."

"Amazon EC2 is a very expensive solution."

"When we did the deployment of Amazon EC2 we found it to be less expensive than other solutions."

"The tool's pricing is not cheap."

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"The solution is open-source."

"I used the tool's free version."

"We use the free version of Apache NiFi."

"It's an open-source solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Retailer

University

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

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?

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...

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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...

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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?

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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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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.

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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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