Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Reviews

Name: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (40 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

40 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 #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 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

July 2024

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Poulav Biswas

Senior Technical Lead at Coach Foundation

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

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.

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 mindshare

As of July 2024, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling in the Compute Service category stands at 9.0%, down from 13.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Jun 26, 2024

Valuable Features

"The tool is a simple solution. You can deploy a new virtual machine in minutes. You can select options like memory and core number and connect storage. It's great because it's simple and fast. You can build a virtual machine in minutes, do your experiments, and then uninstall it without paying for it when it's not in use."
"Applications deployed on EC2 instances can easily integrate with other AWS services. For example, you can connect your EC2 Auto Scaling group to a tool like CloudWatch for health checks and anomaly detection."
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling operates at a different level, working in parallel to efficiently manage workload distribution. Primarily, it focuses on orchestration rather than directly managing EC2 instances for deployment and configuration. It uses automated processes to deploy and manage ports, leveraging Application Load Balancers to effectively handle data communication and management."

Room for Improvement

"The solution is not cheap."
"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."
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers various benefits but lacks certain features for fine-grained customization compared to other cloud providers like GCP. Users are constrained by predefined instance families in EC2 when selecting instance types for scaling. Unlike GCP, where users can independently scale resources such as memory or CPU, EC2 doesn't offer this flexibility."

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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