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Vendor: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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What is AWS Compute Optimizer?

AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal AWS Compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics. Over-provisioning compute can lead to unnecessary infrastructure cost and under-provisioning compute can lead to poor application performance. Compute Optimizer helps you choose the optimal Amazon EC2 instance types, including those that are part of an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group, based on your utilization data.

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AWS Compute Optimizer mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of AWS Compute Optimizer in the Compute Service category stands at 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Valuable Features

  • "I find the solution's scaling capability to be an important benefit. You can scale it vertically or horizontally, i.e., you can upgrade the hardware or clone the machine. The solution is also easy to manage and flexible. Additionally, you get some layers of security without paying for it."

Room for Improvement

  • "I have two areas of improvement to comment on. Most of the product names in AWS are not indicative of what they are doing. Moreover, AWS is not organized and you do not have the full platform with you. It is hard to know some AWS services."

Pricing

  • "I find the solution's pricing reasonable. You need to pay extra for IP and other miscellaneous costs."
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Learn more about AWS Compute Optimizer

By applying the knowledge drawn from Amazon’s own experience running diverse workloads in the cloud, Compute Optimizer identifies workload patterns and recommends optimal compute resources. Compute Optimizer analyzes the configuration and resource utilization of your workload to identify dozens of defining characteristics, for example, if a workload is CPU-intensive, or if it exhibits a daily pattern or if a workload accesses local storage frequently. The service processes these characteristics and identifies the hardware resource headroom required by the workload. Compute Optimizer infers how the workload would have performed on various hardware platforms (e.g. Amazon EC2 instances types) and offers recommendations.

AWS Compute Optimizer customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

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AWS Compute Optimizer reviews

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Shady Mogawer - PeerSpot user
IT Manager at Arabian Cement Company
Verified user of AWS Compute Optimizer
Mar 13, 2023
Easy to manage, flexible, and has good scaling options

Pros

"I find the solution's scaling capability to be an important benefit. You can scale it vertically or horizontally, i.e., you can upgrade the hardware or clone the machine. The solution is also easy to manage and flexible. Additionally, you get some layers of security without paying for it."

Cons

"I have two areas of improvement to comment on. Most of the product names in AWS are not indicative of what they are doing. Moreover, AWS is not organized and you do not have the full platform with you. It is hard to know some AWS services."

What is our primary use case?

We are using the tool for hosting some applications and solutions for the company.

What is most valuable?

I find the solution's scaling capability to be an important benefit. You can scale it vertically or horizontally, i.e., you can upgrade the hardware or clone the machine. The solution is also easy to manage and is flexible. Additionally, you get some layers of security without paying for it.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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