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AWS Auto Scaling vs Splunk Enterprise Security 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

AWS Auto Scaling
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (15th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
318
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Auto Scaling is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 0.2%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 9.4% mindshare, down 12.1% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Mbula Mboma - PeerSpot reviewer
Boosts deployment efficiency with seamless automatic scaling capabilities
My primary use case for Auto Scaling is mainly to deploy applications at scale Auto Scaling has made the deployment of applications more efficient, allowing us to manage traffic and maintain performance as user counts increase. Auto Scaling is a cool feature that works well and its automatic…
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements."
"The product provides self-healing features."
"The solution helps optimize the cost of the AWS environment."
"Our internal business applications are hosted in AWS Auto Scaling."
"It is a stable platform."
"The good thing about Autoscaling is that it provides the capacity to minimize downtime. So, it gives you the assurance of stability and robustness within your system."
"Auto Scaling is a cool feature that works well and its automatic scaling capabilities are very useful."
"I like the graphs provided by the tool."
"I like the ease with which dashboards can be created."
"We can automatically suspend or terminate suspicious sessions."
"Splunk Enterprise Security helped improve our organization’s ability to ingest and normalize data."
"The incident review in Splunk Enterprise Security seems to be the most helpful feature."
"The scalability is good."
"Splunk Enterprise Security enhances business resilience and assists with threat detection by centralizing security data."
"The product is adept at log mining."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is fast and well-documented, and user interface and user interaction are well-designed compared to other SIEM solutions."
 

Cons

"In comparison to other public clouds, the product is costly."
"Setting up the configuration involves too much work for the cloud engineer, like configuring the ALB, the target group, and all the steps."
"The product’s security features need improvement."
"The product could add more features for managing instances."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"The speed of the solution must be improved."
"Setting up the configuration involves too much work for the cloud engineer."
"The tool's stability could be improved."
"The UI can be improved. Dashboards and reports can be better in terms of graphics."
"The solution could improve by giving more email details."
"Writing queries is a bit complicated sometimes."
"For on-premise, it's more about optimization. With such a heavy byte scale of data that we are operating on, the search for disparate data sometimes takes about a minute. This is understandable considering the amount of data that we are pumping into it. The only optimization that I recommend is better sharding, when it comes to Splunk, so that data retrieval can be faster."
"Splunk's high cost, despite its recognition in our region, prevents many organizations from adopting Splunk Enterprise Security, suggesting there's room for improvement in their pricing strategy."
"Free-floating panels in the dashboards are like a glass table."
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
"It needs more formatting control without having to be an admin."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive."
"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."
"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."
"The product has moderate pricing."
"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."
"Splunk differs from other SIEM solutions by using a gigabyte-based pricing model, rather than the agent-based licenses common with its competitors."
"It is economical than other solutions."
"The pricing of Splunk Enterprise Security is somewhat high, but comparing it with its benefits, it's acceptable. It depends on the type of business."
"It is expensive. I used to buy it early on, but then they combined it into a higher-up organization. They buy it for multiple systems now. Last time, I paid around 60K for it. There is just the licensing fee. That's all."
"I assume that the pricing is reasonable, because if it was too costly, there are other alternatives."
"The licensing model can be expensive, but the value it provides is significant."
"There is an annual license required to use this solution."
"The licensing costs are high for Splunk Enterprise Security."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Auto Scaling?
The tool's most valuable feature is vertical auto-scaling, which is easy to use. However, most companies now prefer horizontal scaling. I set up the health check integration to monitor CPU usage. W...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Auto Scaling?
The pricing of Auto Scaling is medium range, neither high nor low.
What needs improvement with AWS Auto Scaling?
It is sometimes very critical to deploy on AWS since some servers are already running in the background. There are challenges for employees on how to deploy at a given time. It requires a downtime ...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
 

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AWS Auto-Scaling
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