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 6.3% 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 91% of Apache users who would recommend it.

Amazon EC2

Read 65 Amazon EC2 reviews

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98% willing to recommend

Apache NiFi

Read 12 Apache NiFi reviews

2,278 Views
1,065 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 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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Prapoj Chipat

Assistant Director at True Corp. PCL.

You only pay for what you use, and you can scale up or scale down without any issues; has good stability and connectivity

My company uses AWS products, including cloud services. Amazon EC2 is being used within the company as well. My company has about ten thousand employees that use Amazon EC2 because everybody connects to the internet. For example, employees use the mail service from the console and Outlook service on the cloud. Everyone uses the internet within the company, so that means Amazon EC2 is being used as well, especially in this COVID situation. Right now, employees use more applications such as streaming and video services which require more connectivity and cloud capacity, so there's a plan to increase usage for Amazon EC2. In terms of how much staff is required for the deployment and maintenance of Amazon EC2, I'm not quite sure how much technical staff my company has because some of the technical staff was outsourced. There's no permanent IT staff in the office. I'm recommending Amazon EC2 to other people because it's a critical product that has more reliability. It has good quality, and it also has many features, so if the features support your use cases, then Amazon EC2 would be a good product for you. My rating for Amazon EC2 is nine out of ten.

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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

"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."

"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 most valuable features are the scalability options, low maintenance, and options to upgrade. AWS support is also pretty good. The generation upgrade is pretty simple and standardized."

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

"The product is very mature and organized."

"The platform has been quite stable and reliable."

"We don't have to worry about scalability issues or maintenance or security. It's all taken care of."

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

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"Visually, this is a good product."

"It is highly effective for handling real-time data by working with APIs for immediate and continuous data extraction."

"The initial setup is very easy."

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

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

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

"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."

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Cons

"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."

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

"Amazon EC2's pricing could be better."

"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."

"This solution could be improved with better pricing. If you continue using this solution over a long period of time, your costs may accumulate."

"Its price can be reduced."

"The tool’s stability could be better."

"In terms of improvement, they could build some client-side desktop tools that provide easier connectivity to Amazon."

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"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."

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

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

"More features must be added to the product."

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

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Reducing the price of the solution could lead to an improvement."

"The price of Amazon EC2 could improve. The Google Cloud Platform is more cost-effective."

"It has helped to reduce costs with infrastructure."

"The price can be improved."

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

"We are using a pay-as-you-go model."

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

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"We use the free version of Apache NiFi."

"The solution is open-source."

"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

15%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

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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?

The pricing of EC2 can vary depending on workloads. It can be expensive for high workloads but more cost-effective for smaller applications. AWS provides various services at competitive pricing, ma...

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What needs improvement with Amazon EC2?

An area needing improvement is the time limitations when accessing EC2 instances. When accessing the server, sometimes PeerSpot can fail, making it difficult to access multiple servers simultaneous...

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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.

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.

Apache

Sample Customers

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

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

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