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Ably vs ECS-Optimized Windows comparison

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Arctera Insight Platform
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Average Rating
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Data Governance (61st), Compliance Management (31st)
Ably
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
4
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AWS Marketplace (35th)
ECS-Optimized Windows
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
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AWS Marketplace (73rd)
 

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Uday Nagpure  - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at Zinsat Technologies
Reduced manual work and built reliable real-time collaboration with serverless messaging
I love Ably for its advanced pub/sub messaging capabilities, which help us with messaging Delta Compression, allowing us to send only changes from previous messages instead of entire payloads every time. For example, if I have to say 'hi', instead of sending the whole payload, it only sends the change in the current payload, reducing bandwidth consumption and enabling high-frequency data streaming. This major change has made our clients really happy as they receive notifications and messages without latency. Additionally, if a client goes offline, Ably stores messages in history for up to 72 hours, allowing clients to query history and catch up on missed events, ensuring complete stream continuity. It also supports multi-protocol, using WebSockets and gracefully falling back to server-sent events and long polling as needed, including support for MQTT and IoT devices along with pub/sub control for easy migration.I appreciate the serverless integration that has the integrated native web hook, instantly triggering serverless functions such as AWS Lambda and Azure Function when specific real-time events occur. It also allows Kafka Connector for seamless ingestion of messages from Kafka topics to stream them out to millions of users in milliseconds.
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Student at Rochester Institute of Technology
Preconfigured containers have cut licensing costs and now save our team time with faster booting
ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or other older technology. It should use the new generation instances, and it should also modernize the storage and the file systems that it is using because those are very old and sometimes problematic. It should also improve or add advanced configurations to the things that we are doing so it can help us and give us more efficiency and productivity in our team. It should give us good analysis, particularly more detailed analysis, with the AWS tools because it is operated by AWS. It is cloud-based, and we are getting it from AWS, so they should also integrate it with AWS better.
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Construction Company
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Outsourcing Company
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Consumer Goods Company
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Comms Service Provider
7%
Construction Company
42%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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What needs improvement with Ably?
There is nothing much to be improved. The experience has been smooth so far, and I haven't run into any major gaps du...
What is your primary use case for Ably?
Ably's main use case is real-time messaging and event streaming. In our recent project, we used Ably to synchronize l...
What advice do you have for others considering Ably?
Everything is smooth and perfect. I would recommend taking advantage of Ably's documentation, which really helps spee...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ECS-Optimized Windows?
I think ECS includes licenses, so it reduces the stress. Also, the cost is very low, at $0.04 per hour per version of...
What needs improvement with ECS-Optimized Windows?
ECS-Optimized Windows can improve by giving us new generation instances rather than the old generation's AMD chips or...
What is your primary use case for ECS-Optimized Windows?
My main use case for ECS-Optimized Windows involves utilizing the machines offered by AWS, which means a workload lik...
 

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