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 #6 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 5.7% mindshare in CS, compared to Apache’s 8.0% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Apache users who would recommend it.

Amazon EC2

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98% willing to recommend

Apache NiFi

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831 Comparison Views

92% 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

6th

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 April 2025, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 is 5.7%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apache NiFi is 8.0%, up from 7.1% 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

"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."

"Amazon EC2 is really reliable and provides great flexibility."

"The product helps us with scalability. We also need not have data centers."

"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."

"The product is very mature and organized."

"The product is easy and quick to set up."

"The flexibility of the security features is what is interesting."

"The ability to quickly spin up instances on demand with zero upfront costs or infrastructure is the most valuable for me."

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

"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."

"The initial setup is very easy."

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

"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."

"Visually, this is a good product."

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

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

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Cons

"My impression is that the scalability of this product could be improved. My opinion is that, for example, the Lambda solution is much more scalable than EC2."

"It's not the best of the best because we still have issues with downtime. We still have issues with the cost of storage, with all these different instance styles, and how much it costs. They cost an arm and a leg the higher you go."

"We found Amazon EC2 to be pricey."

"We faced a challenge in regard to billing. 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."

"Amazon EC2 could improve by reducing the price."

"I would like to see as much automation for data validation as possible in the future."

"EC2 could be improved with easier migration."

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

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

"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."

"More features must be added to the product."

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

"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."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"You pay as you use it."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"It is not an expensive solution."

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

"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."

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"We use the free version of Apache NiFi."

"I used the tool's free version."

"The solution is open-source."

"It's an open-source solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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.

Apache

Sample Customers

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

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

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March 2025

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