AWS Auto Scaling vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Auto Scaling

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (16th)

Splunk Enterprise Security

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

301

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (1st), 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 0.1%, down 0.1% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 10.9% mindshare, down 14.3% since last year.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

PRABHAT_MISHRA

Senior Devops Engineer at LEAD School

Mar 27, 2024

User-friendly interface and provides autoscaling without manual intervention

We utilize AWS Auto Scaling to handle peak traffic times in our application using scheduled scaling. We have scheduled traffic in the morning when we have higher traffic. Previously, we had customer issues with requests failing because of manual intervention. After enabling AWS Auto Scaling, none of the requests failed, giving a very smooth customer experience. In that way, the solution reduced our operational costs. The solution's health check feature is very important because it checks the heartbeat of the application to know whether it's running or not. If it's not running, we automatically get notified and look into the application to see what caused it. The health check integration feature has helped with the availability of the application. I would recommend the solution to people looking for automatic scaling of their application. Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

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Sameep Agarwal.

Group manager at HCM Technologies

Oct 23, 2023

It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query

The ingestion happens quickly, so you can run up the data costs if you use the default settings. It isn't a problem for government agencies in the Saudi market, but many of the corporations in India are small or medium-sized enterprises that cannot afford that kind of ingestion system. Splunk needs to be tweaked in JSON so you can limit what is coming from the endpoints, especially the events. One needs to filter that out so that only certain events are ingested, like login failures, Active Directory changes, password reset requests, privilege modifications, etc. Each Windows machine generates about 310 KB of information per event, but we can tweak that down to about 50 KB.

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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

"The various scaling options available, such as step scaling, are particularly useful."

"The product provides self-healing features."

"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."

"Our internal business applications are hosted in AWS Auto Scaling."

"It efficiently handles traffic, ensuring we are not running expenses and the infrastructure is strong enough to handle the load."

"It helps us to reduce the cost."

"The health check integration feature ensures that the instances are healthy and capable of absorbing traffic, thus serving their purpose effectively."

"It can scale."

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"Splunk's visualizations make it easy for users to understand the data."

"This solution helps us increase our productivity."

"The most valuable features in Splunk are the search function and the ability to run selected session reports. The session reports are important because I can use them to see what is going on in our environment weekly. Additionally, we can use the graph to see how often that particular event is happening."

"Low barrier to start searching with the ability to normalize data on the fly."

"The dashboard and reporting are very good... It provides very good visibility in a hybrid cloud environment, and you can build custom utilization APIs using Splunk."

"The metrics and trends that Splunk Enterprise Security generates using all the data points we send allow customers to understand better what their users are doing."

"The ability to digest any information and then correlate it in accordance with what you need is valuable. The ability to connect to pretty much everything and bring the information in the same format is also valuable. On top of that, we can use their language in order to create and customize the dashboards, correlations, or analytics that we want to incorporate."

"Splunk has significantly helped with aggregation and correlation of critical logs. Not having to grep on each individual server has made everyone more efficient."

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Cons

"Flexibility in configuring the workload is missing in AWS Auto Scaling."

"The product’s security features need improvement."

"AWS Auto Scaling's documentation could be better."

"The setup can be a bit complex in some situations."

"The only area of improvement is the speed at which servers are launched. When cleaning up to six servers at a time, it can take up to 15 to 20 minutes to launch new servers."

"It has latency issues. It depends on the distribution used, whether it's Amazon Linux, Windows Linux, etc. Occasionally, there are latency issues, which might lead to slower performance."

"We can have more auto scaling algorithms implemented in AWS Auto Scaling."

"It could be cheaper."

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"The Enterprise Security app could be improved. We have had trouble with it working from the first day."

"I find that the learning curve for Splunk is relatively lengthy."

"Some of the terminology can be confusing, even for seasoned vets. Renaming components at this point would be a serious undertaking. However, it might be beneficial in the long run."

"The cluster environment should be improved. We have a cluster. In the Splunk cluster environment, in the case of heavy searches and heavy load, the Splunk cluster goes down, and we have to put it in the maintenance mode to get it back. We are not able to find the actual culprit for this issue. I know that cluster has RF and SF, but it has been down so many times. There should be something in Splunk to help users to find the reason and the solution for such issues."

"They can incorporate the SOAR solution within the actual product so that we do not require two different products, two different installations, and two different pricing methods. In regards to UBA, I am familiar with the UBA that existed two years ago. I am not updated about it today, but two years ago, UBA required such an amount of data that from a cost perspective, it was not worth it. When you compare it to what you get out of the box with Microsoft Sentinel without additional costs, there is no match."

"Many of my clients want to get better at Splunk, but they're afraid of using the tool because they feel it's too complex for them."

"It will be helpful for customers if they can create some real-world cases, and we can find a case study to align with. I know that Splunk has tremendous potential. We only include a tiny piece of it. There is a lot of stuff that we need to learn. If Splunk can provide more real-time examples, that will be helpful for customers."

"If you have to do your own stuff, such as customized charts, it is a little bit more work, but once you're familiar with the Splunk query language, you can pretty much do whatever you want. In terms of features, it should probably have the features that other competitors provide."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."

"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."

"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."

"The product is expensive."

"The product has moderate pricing."

"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."

"This product could use better pricing in general."

"The solution is a little expensive."

"Splunk Enterprise Security's pricing is based on data volume, which generally suits large enterprises."

"There is an annual license required to use this solution."

"It would be nice if the pricing were cheaper. However, we did purchase it."

"Price-wise, if you compare QRadar to Splunk for SIEM functionality then they are in the same range but when you integrate SOAR with these solutions, Splunk takes the lead and is more competitive."

"Splunk Enterprise Security is cheaper than competitors, but I do not know whether it is just our contract."

"It is not cheap."

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Comparison Review

Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Feb 26, 2015

HP ArcSight vs. IBM QRadar vs. McAfee Nitro vs. Splunk vs. RSA Security vs. LogRhythm

We at Infosecnirvana.com have done several posts on SIEM. After the Dummies Guide on SIEM, we are following it up with a SIEM Product Comparison – 101 deck. So, here it is for your viewing pleasure. Let me know what you think by posting your comments below. The key products compared here are…

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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?

AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution. We pay a monthly licensing fee for the solution.

What needs improvement with AWS Auto Scaling?

In comparison to other public clouds, the product is costly.

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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Overview

AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. The service provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets you build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas. AWS Auto Scaling makes scaling simple with recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them. If you’re already using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to dynamically scale your Amazon EC2 instances, you can now combine it with AWS Auto Scaling to scale additional resources for other AWS services. With AWS Auto Scaling, your applications always have the right resources at the right time.

Splunk Enterprise Security is widely used for security operations, including threat detection, incident response, and log monitoring. It centralizes log management, offers security analytics, and ensures compliance, enhancing the overall security posture of organizations.

Companies leverage Splunk Enterprise Security to monitor endpoints, networks, and users, detecting anomalies, brute force attacks, and unauthorized access. They use it for fraud detection, machine learning, and real-time alerts within their SOCs. The platform enhances visibility and correlates data from multiple sources to identify security threats efficiently. Key features include comprehensive dashboards, excellent reporting capabilities, robust log aggregation, and flexible data ingestion. Users appreciate its SIEM capabilities, threat intelligence, risk-based alerting, and correlation searches. Highly scalable and stable, it suits multi-cloud environments, reducing alert volumes and speeding up investigations.

What are the key features?

Comprehensive Dashboards: Provide a holistic view of security operations.
Flexible Data Ingestion: Supports various data sources for better analysis.
Robust Log Aggregation: Centralizes log management for easier monitoring.
Machine Learning Toolkit: Enhances threat detection and prediction capabilities.
SIEM Capabilities: Integrates security information and event management.
Threat Intelligence: Utilizes external information to improve security measures.
Risk-Based Alerting: Prioritizes alerts based on the risk they pose.
Correlation Searches: Identifies and correlates security events effectively.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Visibility: Improves monitoring across endpoints, networks, and users.
Faster Incident Response: Speeds up identification and resolution of security issues.
Reduced Alert Volumes: Lowers false positives and enhances signal-to-noise ratio.
Scalability: Adapts to growing and changing security needs.
Improved Security Operations: Integrates multiple security facets into one platform.

Splunk Enterprise Security is implemented across industries like finance, healthcare, and retail. Financial institutions use it for fraud detection and compliance, while healthcare organizations leverage its capabilities to safeguard patient data. Retailers deploy it to protect customer information and ensure secure transactions.

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability