AWS Auto Scaling vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Broadcom are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.7, while Broadcom is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.8. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to Broadcom’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

VMware Aria Operations for Applications and AWS Auto Scaling are tools for managing applications at scale. VMware Aria Operations is preferred for its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, while AWS Auto Scaling is favored for its seamless scalability features.

Features: VMware Aria Operations for Applications offers deep analytic capabilities, robust monitoring features, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities. AWS Auto Scaling provides automated scaling functionality, ease of integration with other AWS services, and seamless scalability features.

Room for Improvement: VMware needs enhancements in ease of use, integration with third-party tools, and usability improvements. AWS requires better documentation, more intuitive setup processes, and improved integration features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMware Aria Operations for Applications has a steeper learning curve with strong customer support. AWS Auto Scaling offers straightforward deployment but lacks in-depth support.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Aria Operations has a higher upfront investment with significant long-term benefits. AWS Auto Scaling is cost-effective for on-demand scaling needs.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Auto Scaling

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

14th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (17th), Container Monitoring (6th), Cloud Monitoring Software (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AWS Auto Scaling is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 1.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
AWS Auto Scaling	0.5%
VMware Aria Operations for Applications	1.3%
Other	98.2%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

AmitMishra1

Tech Lead at ATOS

Automatic scaling has reduced costs and handles unpredictable traffic spikes for critical APIs

From my experience, the best features AWS Auto Scaling offers include target tracking scaling, which is very easy to configure. It also integrates with CloudWatch metrics, which is very important, and provides scheduled scaling, which helps some organizations. Two of my clients are using that. Predictive scaling for known traffic patterns and seamless integration with ALBs, ECS, and EC2 are also my favorite features of AWS Auto Scaling. Out of those features, target tracking scaling has saved me the most time and effort, making it my favorite feature. I find predictive scaling useful but in real-world scenarios, we rely more on dynamic scaling. AWS Auto Scaling has positively impacted my organization as it simplifies scaling decisions. I just need to define our target, such as CPU percentage, and AWS Auto Scaling handles everything. There is no need to fine-tune complex scaling rules, which has helped a lot. It has also significantly improved system reliability and reduced costs, as we no longer worry about sudden traffic spikes and we are not overpaying for idle resources. This has saved us significant costs, estimating around 25 to 30 percent after fine-tuning the scaling policy.

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Ajay Shukla

Consultant at HCLTech

Automation and insightful diagnostics elevate operations while improvements are welcome

The new version 8.18 has brought significant improvements. The main purpose of using this tool is having a single console to manage all entities. The cloud integration capabilities, including private, public, and hybrid, are already well-implemented. The ability to manage multiple vCenters across different geographical locations is very effective. The new Skyline health feature and certificate and licensing management are particularly useful improvements. The dashboard's overview tab provides comprehensive information about current vCenter status, resizable amounts, reclamation opportunities, anomalies, diagnostics, licensing, and certificates. However, there is room for improvement in application analysis. The current functionality lacks detailed monitoring at the kernel level, focusing mainly on CPU, memory, and storage matrices. Enhanced application monitoring capabilities, including tracking downtime for specific types of applications such as transactional or e-commerce applications, would be beneficial.

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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 most valuable feature is the ability to select a minimum amount of active servers so that a new server automatically launches if one fails."

"It can scale."

"The automation aspect where you can automate it to whatever you want is what I value the most about Auto Scaling."

"The setup is not very complex."

"It is a stable platform."

"AWS Auto Scaling has positively impacted my organization as it simplifies scaling decisions, significantly improved system reliability, and reduced costs, as we no longer worry about sudden traffic spikes and we are not overpaying for idle resources, saving us an estimated 25 to 30 percent after fine-tuning the scaling policy."

"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."

"I would highly recommend Auto Scaling to others because it is a fantastic feature that simplifies scaling processes and makes deployment efficient."

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"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."

"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products, it's very fast and has good visibility."

"The solution provides single-console management for multiple VMware environments and cloud integrations, whether hybrid, private, or public cloud."

"Wavefront gives us the complexity we need, instead of spending time coming up with a nice dashboard from some other means, or just creating and coding our own app."

"The stability of Aria Operations for Applications has improved significantly over the years."

"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."

"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."

"Using Wavefront, we have been able to reduce the complexity of our pipeline."

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Cons

"The speed of the solution must be improved."

"The tool must include AI features."

"AWS Auto Scaling can be improved in many ways, such as providing better visibility into scaling decisions and clarifying why exactly scaling happens."

"The solution is not out-of-the-box and you have to study to use it. It should be more easier to use."

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

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

"The product could add more features for managing instances."

"It requires a downtime before deploying the Auto Scaling group."

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"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."

"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."

"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point."

"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."

"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."

"VMware technical support has declined since the Broadcom acquisition. Previously, they were more focused on issue resolution, but now they prioritize licensing verification before providing support."

"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."

"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The product is expensive."

"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."

"The product has moderate pricing."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."

"The licensing costs are very high, particularly when you consider that we have to purchase a level 1 license for every integration, such as the load balancer, HAProxy, and the MSSP. And if you want to use vSAN, that's another license. Then, of course, Tanzu Observability has its own separate license."

"I don't have the details. In our case, there is a mixture in place. We have production usage, and we are also doing training for VMware. So, we also have a training instance. It is worth the money you would spend on it. That's because if you were to build all of this yourself by using some of the open source tools, then you would need a lot of time."

"I would rate the pricing as three out of five."

"Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Educational Organization

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	10

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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Auto Scaling?

I'm not sure about the pricing aspect of AWS Auto Scaling or the cost of it.

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What needs improvement with AWS Auto Scaling?

I'm not really sure what improvements I would want to see in AWS Auto Scaling because I haven't really used it extensively or explored most of it. To the extent that I've used it so far, I think it...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

The solution includes cost drivers that can be configured according to your environment. You can input server-wise, CPU-wise, storage, and memory costs per hour or day. Once cost drivers are provid...

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What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

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What is your primary use case for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

I have been involved in several projects where I had to implement automation and monitoring alerting. I performed automation using VMware Aria Operations for Applications. There is an automation ta...

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Also Known As

AWS Auto-Scaling

Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing the performance and availability of applications and infrastructure in real-time.

With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, visualizing and analyzing data becomes effortless. The real-time alerting system ensures timely issue resolution, while scalability and a user-friendly interface provide a seamless experience for smooth operations.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Databricks 4. DigitalOcean 5. Equinix 6. Fidelity Investments 7. Google 8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9. Honeywell 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JetBlue Airways 13. LinkedIn 14. Lyft 15. Mastercard 16. Microsoft 17. MongoDB 18. Netflix 19. Nvidia 20. Oracle 21. PayPal 22. Pinterest 23. Qualcomm 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Square 29. TMobile 30. Twitter 31. Uber 32. VMware

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