Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (37 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

37 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define. ... Dynamic scaling responds to changing demand and predictive scaling automatically schedules the right number of EC2 instances based on predicted demand.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is the #2 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs Apache Spark. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 65% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 22% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Poulav Biswas

Senior Technical Lead at Coach Foundation

Jul 24, 2023

We have several instances and applications that we run using WordPress. For that, I needed an easy, secure, and faster solution with different options to back up the website and data. Amazon EC2 offers options to back up data using the S3 version control system, which worked really well for us…

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ShahRushabh

Solutions Architect at Infinite Computer Solutions

Jul 7, 2023

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is used to divide the heavy traffic of our solutions and process the request properly In a multi-tenancy architecture, when we have requests from multiple tenants, the CPU utilization of our machines goes high, and the processing time increases. However, when we use Amazon…

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Mridu Boruah

Cloud manager at Baxter International Inc.

Aug 11, 2023

In my company, we use Auto Scaling for EC2 instances. I use Auto Scaling with a load balancer when there is very high internet traffic and we need to serve more users. The load balancer will just scale up to serve more users The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that EC2…

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling in the Compute Service category stands at 11.9%, marking an increase of 35.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The solution removes the need for hardware. We can easily create servers or machines. Just by clicking or specifying our requirements, like memory size or disk space, it's set up for us. The tool eliminates the need for hardware. We can choose what we need and pay as we use it. It is flexible and can integrate with any product."
"The documentation is good."
"The product is flexible."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"Automation is very hard."

Pricing

"The solution's licensing is based on a pay-as-you-go model. You only pay for the resources you use, whether it's RAM, processing power, or storage. So, it's calculated based on the time you use those resources, typically billed in hours or minutes."
"The solution is not expensive."
"The product is quite expensive."

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