Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.5 (46 reviews)

4.5 out of 5

46 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

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 #3 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling an average rating of 9.0 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 24% of all views.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

June 2025

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Featured Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling reviews

Muhammad Awais Zahid

DevOps Engineer at Al Nafi

I have been working with customers who use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for handling their workload on servers and scaling up the infrastructure as required. As an instructor and cloud consultant, I help clients maintain and scale their infrastructure using this service to achieve zero downtime…

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Erick Karanja

Technical Lead at Cellulant Kenya

AWS has already made improvements. In the past, if you provisioned a large EC2 instance and underutilized it, you still paid a premium. Now, AWS encourages using Kubernetes, where you primarily pay for the compute power you actually use in production. There is room for improvement. You might end up paying a high price if you're not careful and you provision a server that's underutilized. AWS has left it to engineers to figure out solutions. If you find the cost too high, you can move to Kubernetes, which might be a better solution for you than large EC2 instances. So, the improvements need to come from the user side, not the provider. Software engineers and engineering teams need to know their limits with EC2 instances. They need to recognize when it's time to transition their applications to Kubernetes. This means building with the cloud in mind from the start, making it easier to move solutions to the cloud without suffering upgrades and integration issues.

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Mridu Boruah

Cloud manager at Baxter International Inc.

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.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling in the Compute Service category stands at 10.3%, down from 14.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Compute Service	Jul 1, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jul 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs AWS Lambda	Jul 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs AWS Fargate	Jul 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs Apache Spark	Jul 1, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Apache Spark	4.2	11.5%	90%	66 interviews Add to research
AWS Lambda	4.3	20.7%	94%	88 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The easy possibility to spin up runtimes according to the needs of the POC, getting a runtime up and running in an easy way, which is accessible over the internet, is valuable for our process."
"The most valuable features include the availability of various services like compute, memory, and database services in the AWS landscape."
"With the ability to set up rules based on demand, network, or traffic, the service offers a necessary level of adaptability."

Room for Improvement

"EC2 is doing what it is intended to do, and I have no specific improvements to suggest."
"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."
"Sometimes the configuration is not intuitive."

Pricing

"As far back as I can remember, I have experience with two types of subscriptions. The first was my personal AWS base, and the second was a corporate license. I can't say much about the corporate license, but I recall they sent the bill every month for the personal subscription, though I could be mistaken."
"Amazon EC2 instances can be very expensive."
"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."

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