AWS Auto Scaling Reviews

Name: AWS Auto Scaling
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (18 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

18 reviews
90% willing to recommend

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AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. The service provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets you build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas. AWS Auto Scaling makes scaling simple with recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them. If you’re already using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to dynamically scale your Amazon EC2 instances, you can now combine it with AWS Auto Scaling to scale additional resources for other AWS services. With AWS Auto Scaling, your applications always have the right resources at the right time.

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AWS Auto Scaling is the #27 ranked solution in APM tools. PeerSpot users give AWS Auto Scaling an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. AWS Auto Scaling is most commonly compared to Splunk Enterprise Security: AWS Auto Scaling vs Splunk Enterprise Security. AWS Auto Scaling is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 77% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Alex Kabugo

System Engineer at Wipro Limited

Aug 21, 2023

The good thing about Autoscaling is that it provides the capacity to minimize downtime. So, it gives you the assurance of stability and robustness within your system We deal with applications – specifically, the ones deployed in the production environment of the cloud. So, the aim is to ensure…

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PRABHAT_MISHRA

Senior Devops Engineer at LEAD School

Mar 27, 2024

We utilize AWS Auto Scaling to handle peak traffic times in our application using scheduled scaling. We have scheduled traffic in the morning when we have higher traffic. Previously, we had customer issues with requests failing because of manual intervention. After enabling AWS Auto Scaling, none of the requests failed, giving a very smooth customer experience. In that way, the solution reduced our operational costs. The solution's health check feature is very important because it checks the heartbeat of the application to know whether it's running or not. If it's not running, we automatically get notified and look into the application to see what caused it. The health check integration feature has helped with the availability of the application. I would recommend the solution to people looking for automatic scaling of their application. Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

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Sumit Tiwari

Deputy General Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Apr 15, 2024

If our workload utilization is inconsistent, it is better to use AWS Auto Scaling. If we have a hard-coded number of instances running, we might be wasting Compute if we don't have enough workload. The health check is one of the key features integrated with the tool. If one of my instances goes down, the health check feature identifies and creates another instance to ensure the minimum number of instances required for the workload is available. The product provides self-healing features. It helps to keep my instances running. If something goes wrong, the instances will be up due to the self-healing features.

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Valuable Features

"The tool's most valuable feature is vertical auto-scaling, which is easy to use. However, most companies now prefer horizontal scaling. I set up the health check integration to monitor CPU usage. When it reaches seventy percent, it sends me an email notification."
"The product provides self-healing features."
"I like the graphs provided by the tool."