Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Reviews

At CPA, we have a product where we manage several aspects, but essentially, one of them concerns managing campaigns during specific days in the USA, such as holidays or weekends. During these times, we experience a high demand from people using the systems, which necessitates the use of Auto Scaling.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling manages peak traffic demands by allowing the creation of rules based on network requirements or specific scheduling needs. This ensures flexibility and efficiency in handling increased traffic on days with high demand, such as holidays.

The configuration capabilities and the flexibility that it provides are most valuable. With the ability to set up rules based on demand, network, or traffic, the service offers a necessary level of adaptability.

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.

I have been using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for nearly six years.

Stability depends on the applications. If there are software-related issues like poor memory management, instances may restart or fail, however, Auto Scaling effectively handles this by dynamically creating new instances as needed. Thus, I consider it highly reliable.

It offers almost perfect scalability, adapting well to various demands, especially during peak periods such as holidays.

During these six years, I have not needed to reach out to technical support.

Positive

Setting up is not complicated once you understand how to manage the tool, and it is primarily an issue of communicating with business stakeholders to understand their needs.

Considering the expenses associated with the instances themselves, I would rate it a six. While instances can be costly depending on their number, the cost aligns with the value provided.

One should pay careful attention to the configuration of policies. Misconfiguration could lead to undesirable costs since resources may not be optimally used.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

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.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is simple to integrate. 

The solution is not cheap. 

I have been using the product for ten years.

Amazon solutions are also stable regarding stability, but their Service Level Agreements often guarantee around 97% or 98% uptime rather than 99.99%. For critical systems that require 99.99% reliability or higher, you may need to implement additional measures to achieve the necessary reliability. It's essential to carefully examine and analyze the SLAs to understand their reliability level.

The solution is scalable. However, to scale, you might need to manually upgrade it by adding more processor cores or memory. My company has around 7000 users. 

I didn't face any scenarios that required extensive support. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling's support is good. 

The initial setup and installation are very straightforward. You can select from preconfigured system machines, choose the storage size, and configure it from the screen. Once you make these selections, access to the instance takes just a few minutes.

It's my solution for experiments. You don't need to buy or search for hardware for experiments. But for constant use, such as an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling machine running 24/7, I prefer special discounts because they're not cheap.

In some business cases, it could be perfect. But for me, it's a great solution for something like a startup for the initial phase. Then, you should precisely calculate your costs and understand what happens.

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.

I rate the overall product a nine out of ten. I advise monitoring your expenses carefully because it's easy to forget to stop the automation, for example, at night or over the weekend, which can lead to surprises. 

The product helps our organization minimize costs by providing high availability of applications and microservice.

The product's most valuable features are high availability and persistence.

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

We have been using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for seven years.

I rate the platform's stability an eight or nine out of ten.

Compared to the product, Karpenter has a high algorithm to manage horizontal and vertical scaling. I rate its scalability a six out of ten. 

We used OpenShift earlier. We switched to Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for better infrastructure performance.

The initial setup process is easy. It involves configuring a cluster, creating a cluster request, and using code to deploy it. The deployment time depends on specific applications and infrastructure. It takes approximately three days to complete and needs one person to execute maintenance and patching.

Sometimes, we take the help of an integrator, whereas sometimes, we refer to the documentation for the product implementation.

The product's pricing depends on the traffic and workload. Additional costs exist if you use services like CloudWatch, VPN, etc.

The product is easy to use and configure for small nodes. For large nodes, I advise others to use other solutions like Karpenter.

I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling an eight out of ten.

We use the product as a computing machine. By clicking on the portal, we can create different machines with specific features, like memory size.

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 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.

I have been using the product for eight years. 

I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten. 

The solution is scalable and flexible, meaning you can adjust resources like RAM, processing power, and storage capacity to match workload changes. I rate it a nine out of ten. My company has 400 users. For deployment and maintenance, only one to five technical administrators are usually needed to manage Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. 

The tool's support is good. We don't need much tech support, as our technical team can handle most issues.

The solution's setup is straightforward, easy to handle, and simple to use. The deployment process is also straightforward. You access the AWS portal, select EC2, and configure your requirements, such as RAM, storage, and processing power.

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.

I recommend the tool's scalability, flexibility, stability, and pay-as-you-go model. It's a great choice for efficiency gains and moving away from hardware setups. I rate the overall product an eight out of ten. 

I use the solution for development, production, and testing.

The product is flexible. We can get whatever we want in a minute.

Automation is very hard.

I have been using the solution for two years. I am using the latest version of the solution.

The stability is very good.

The tool’s scalability is great. Around 20 to 30 users are using the solution in our organization. It is an enterprise solution.

Previously, we used an on-premise solution.

The initial setup was okay. The documentation was great. The time taken for deployment depends on whether we want automation. If we want automation, the whole process can take a couple of weeks to set up all the automation.

We deployed the product ourselves. The deployment process is very well documented in Amazon.

The ROI is good.

The product is quite expensive. We pay for the license yearly.

I would recommend using the product and automating everything from the beginning. Overall, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten. We seek support from solution architects for design.

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 EC2 Auto Scaling, it processes faster.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling has a cool-down time feature called the warmup start.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can provide more discounts when using the machines the solution uses.

I have been using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for almost two years.

I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ten out of ten for stability.

I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ten out of ten for scalability.

The solution's deployment is very easy.

Return on investment with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling depends on your use cases. If you have a lot of load on your application, you will definitely see an ROI. Otherwise, it will be an expensive solution.

There is no specific pricing for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, but we have to pay for the number of machines getting scaled up.

I am using the latest version of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.

Before using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, analyze the load which the machines will receive. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can be very expensive if you fail to decide whether you want to scale horizontally or vertically and scale accordingly.

Overall, I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling a nine out of ten.

We use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for production nodes to manage varying loads during peak business hours. It provides the flexibility of auto-scaling infrastructure when there is high traffic.

The product’s most valuable feature is the seamless resizing of web connection.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling’s filtering features need improvement. The support to manage the processes could be better. Whenever the product stops working, we have to change the settings and require to find the root cause of the issues. These instance logs should be managed by AWS itself.

We have been using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for seven years.

The product is stable.

We have 1000 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling users. The platform’s scalability features are flexible. We have recently added a few more nodes, and it was easy to change those configurations. It saves costs and time for us.

My recent experience with technical support is pleasant. They are thorough and quick to contact and coordinate with different teams to resolve the root cause.

We use OpenStack, InfraCloud, and other cloud vendors.

The initial setup process is straightforward. AWS has a user-friendly UI; we also have information and guidance available on their platform. The initial migration process from on-premises to on-cloud takes time.

The deployment process requires having specific knowledge about the application, including its limitations, dependency analysis, and a backup plan. It is preferable to run it in a lower environment and then do actual deployment. If you have a proper plan, it is easy.

The implementation can be in-house. But depending on the team size and management’s decision, we take help from third-party vendors.

We can reduce our infrastructure cost drastically using the product. We have received a good ROI.

The product is expensive. There are no licensing fees, but we have to pay for resources.

I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling a seven out of ten.

I advise others to plan carefully. The major challenge is to understand performance and load requirements. You can decide the minimum capacity to be optimized and not over-provision it. Additionally, you can run it in a lower environment before going into production. You can figure out the parameters using CloudOps metrics.

The tool serves several purposes. It helps to pass instances automatically. We can perform maintenance on instances and application upgrades.

The solution incorporates ease of maintenance and reduction in operational overhead and costs. Patching is also easy. 

The most valuable feature is the tool's ability to integrate with load balancers. 

The launch configuration feature doesn't work properly. It needs to improve the load configuration feature along with launch templates. The tool needs to tag feature as well. 

I have been working with the solution since 2016. 

I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling's stability a ten out of ten. 

I rate the tool's scalability an eight-point five out of ten. 

I rate Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling's pricing a seven out of ten. 

I rate the product an eight out of ten.