What needs improvement with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

There is a need for improvement in understanding the pricing structure, as it is complex and depends on several factors such as the location of data centers.

For future improvements, I suggest focusing on cost reduction. Additionally, while the interface is already user-friendly, more updates and enhancements could be beneficial, particularly for customizing and configuring complex infrastructures.

Sometimes the configuration is not intuitive. Maybe the documentation could be clearer in certain areas. While understanding the tool is straightforward, there could be improvements in how intuitive the setup and the documentation are.

The solution is not cheap.

The solution's pricing is expensive. You pay based on how much you use it, like paying for the time or hours you use the service. There's no need to buy hardware separately.

The tool must provide proper guidelines to troubleshoot connectivity issues. It must also improve AMI creation.

The product should improve vertical scaling features. It should support scaling inside the nodes. It requires the capacity to scale microservices in other nodes.

The spinning up in the solution can be much faster. There are other solutions you can depend on if you cannot even wait for seconds for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to spin up. The solution should be available with certain Microsoft products like an inbuilt MS Word or Office in EC2 since there are use cases where an application needs to access MS Excel to prepare or download a report. The product should have a faster scalability option.

There is room for improvement in the scalability.

There should be fewer inputs required that include mandatory details for configuration. It will help someone with less technical knowledge easily set up the system.

The solution's stability and scalability need improvement.

If your EC2 instance doesn't boot up, you're in the dark about what's happening. It would be amazing if you could get a view of the console to see the status. There's something called the AWS Console, which is a web portal. I would like to see a virtual screen of an instance that hasn't started properly, so I can see where it crashed.

The existing instance should not be terminated during scale in and scale out. The product does not explain why a particular instance is terminated. There is no option to check the log either.

I'd like to see more integration with products like Ansible and other platforms.

There is room for improvement in the pricing model.

We would like to see improvement in the UI for this solution, so that it is more user-friendly.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling could improve by adding better integration features with the other services. Additionally, if the alarms could be triggered from other services this would be beneficial.

As we are transitioning to managing containerized applications, the solution could improve by adding more managed container services as a feature in the solution.

I would like to see the security portal improved in the future.

The pricing could be reduced.

The big issue for us is the cost of using the solution.

We do have some issues sometimes when something is not configured in the correct way. However, users can avoid this type of trouble by being knowledgeable about the product. The price could always be a bit better. On the ECs, the T2 microservice is the lowest tier. That particular tier could be a little better than what they're offering currently. You cannot do anything at all on that T2 micro. It's a useless tier to have introduced, as you can't do anything at all. You would be able to log in and log off and do some simple features which are already available on that operating system. Yet you cannot install anything. You cannot do anything at all.

The documentation for this solution could be improved. For example, sometimes it's difficult to find documentation for integration with applications.

We have found that the sizing in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is far off. For example, we will see some at one terabyte and the other one is two terabytes. There is nothing between one and two terabytes. Sometimes it's a struggle if I need one and a half, I still am supposed to pay for two. There are five terabytes, six terabytes, and 12 terabytes, and if I need something at eight or nine, I'm still paying 30 to 40 percent more by taking the one which is 12 terabytes. Microsoft Azure does similar sizes but the gap can be more, such as six terabytes, and the next one is 12 terabytes.

What could be improved in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is its fees. We are looking to have some discounts on billing.

The solution could improve by having more automation. Nowadays there is a vast variety of automation. Additionally, infrastructure monitoring could improve.

I would like to see a feature included that has the capability to clone when an instance is being terminated. We have a few instances with the internal firewall. If for example, I am going to run Linux, and the firewall is open, sometimes it becomes difficult to debug the issue. Also, when you connect from another device, and if the internal IP address table is not deleted, the firewall will be enabled there. There is no clear understanding of where the issue is. If you connect externally, you have to install SFTP. I would like debugging capabilities included.

The technical support needs to be improved. From a usage perspective, it runs well, although there may be a use case where it will break that I have not yet come across.

Ask set of questions like expected number of users, redundancy, up time per day and etc when creating a new instance. This would help the user to choose the right EC2 configurations.

Scalability can be improved.