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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs Amazon Virtual Private Cloud comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers substantial ROI, over 50% for high loads, outperforming GCP, with cost-effective instance deployment.
Sentiment score
5.7
Effective use of Amazon VPC, especially with appropriate EC2 instances, yields significant financial returns, particularly beneficial for startups.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling support is highly rated for responsiveness and effectiveness, despite challenges with third-party integrations.
Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon VPC support receives mixed reviews, praised for expertise but facing issues with communication delays and need for self-navigation.
They have very good support.
Cloud Architect Consultant at T-Systems International
I would rate the technical support of AWS a nine, as their team resolves issues effectively and meets our expectations.
IT Analyst | Aws Cloud Ops | Dev Ops | Fin Ops at Tata Consultancy
The technical support from Amazon has been excellent.
Cloud and Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
When we use business support, the availability of the engineers is very good.
CloudOps Expert at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling efficiently adapts to demand changes, supporting scalability with features like load balancing and server automation.
Sentiment score
7.8
Amazon VPC offers excellent scalability with tools like Auto Scaling, efficiently managing demand for companies of all sizes.
The scaling feature appears to be embedded in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling price.
Senior Analyst - Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The scalability and ability to expand within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud performs very well.
Cloud and Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is praised for its stability, resilience, and effective performance, with up to 99% reported uptime.
Sentiment score
8.4
Amazon VPC is praised for security and uptime, with minimal downtime and quick resolution of configuration issues ensuring reliability.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling should automatically scale out systems during high demand and scale in new instances when demand decreases.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
The stability of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling rates a 10.
Senior Analyst - Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Enhancements needed in scalability, customization, integration, documentation, UI, pricing, predictive scaling, security, and vertical scaling for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.
Amazon VPC users face challenges with compatibility, usability, pricing, and integration, desiring improved documentation, security, and customization.
Amazon should provide more detailed training materials for people who are just starting to work with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.
Cloud Infrastucture Engineer at REG-X
Integration with LLM would be beneficial as many services are implementing this functionality.
Senior Analyst - Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
In enterprise environments such as healthcare or banking with numerous instances running different applications, customizable policies allow appropriate scaling.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
It would be great if we could use the AWS Direct Connect in Mongolia.
Unitel Group at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Based on my experience, there are aspects of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud that could be improved to enhance the solution.
Cloud and Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers flexible pricing based on usage, with careful management needed to control potential costs.
Enterprise users find Amazon VPC pricing complex and costly, but competitive when extensively using AWS products with minimal configuration setup.
It operates on a pay-as-you-go model, meaning if a machine is used for only an hour, the pricing will be calculated for that hour only, not the entire month.
Cloud Infrastucture Engineer at REG-X
In some projects, incorrect decisions were made by not consulting them first, resulting in higher setup and maintenance costs.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
 

Valuable Features

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ensures efficient demand scaling, cost-effectiveness, and seamless integration with CloudWatch for optimal resource management.
Amazon VPC offers security, scalability, and easy integration with AWS, featuring flexible pricing and customizable policies for efficient management.
The service offers 99.9999% availability.
Senior Analyst - Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The best feature I appreciate about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is its health check functionality; when a server becomes unreachable or enters an unhealthy state, it automatically triggers an alert, and the load balancer responds by spinning up a new server, ensuring that traffic is distributed effectively.
IT Analyst | Aws Cloud Ops | Dev Ops | Fin Ops at Tata Consultancy
This pre-configuration makes on-demand scaling refined, and the configuration includes automatic traffic distribution because when the first system is overloaded, new incoming traffic is redirected to the newly created systems.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows the nodes to talk to each other, enhances our security with its security group feature, and the network access list can isolate attackers, while the subnet service organizes our nodes' network topology and provides access to customers.
Unitel Group at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The ability to define and work with subnets is particularly helpful in managing the networking environment.
Cloud and Network Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
For security and ACLs, Routing Tables, route tables, subnet, and subnetting, these are very useful functions.
CloudOps Expert at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Ranking in Compute Service
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Ranking in Compute Service
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is 5.0%, down from 9.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is 4.0%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Compute Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling5.0%
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud4.0%
Other91.0%
Compute Service
 

Featured Reviews

Karthikeyan Ganesan - PeerSpot reviewer
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
Offers automatic scaling features but can improve user interface and setup guidance
Customizable policies help us determine how scaling should occur. In enterprise environments such as healthcare or banking with numerous instances running different applications, customizable policies allow appropriate scaling. For critical servers, we can set up a higher number of new instances to scale out to prevent downtime. For less critical servers that perform simple tasks such as file copying, we can use customizable policies to scale out minimal instances to avoid unnecessary expenses or cloud costs. Regarding integration, there are some disadvantages in AWS where certain availability zones or regions experience glitches. This can cause production halts because of problems on Amazon's side. In particular regions, when integrating Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling or other services, there might be delays in creating new Amazon EC2 instances, sometimes becoming inefficient.
reviewer2754069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unitel Group at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Network flexibility and security have been enhanced
The most beneficial feature of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud for our use case is the site-to-site connection, allowing our data centers to connect to the AWS EC2 nodes, which is currently the most useful feature for us. The Elastic Network Interface is the main component of our networking services within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, allowing us to connect to our nodes and enabling all node-to-node communication, node-to-customer, and customer-to-node interactions. It is a really helpful feature for us. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows the nodes to talk to each other, enhances our security with its security group feature, and the network access list can isolate attackers, while the subnet service organizes our nodes' network topology and provides access to customers. It is a really great feature, and I would highly recommend it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Marketing Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise28
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
Regarding licensing and setup costs, we always study in detail using lower environments such as User Acceptance Testing or sandbox environments. Before creation, we consult AWS official documentati...
What needs improvement with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
I don't work with predictive scaling. I know this feature, but I have never worked with it. For me, availability is something different. If you want to set up your application to be highly availabl...
What is your primary use case for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
I have been working with this product for almost more than 10 years. I worked on a backup recovery project for a customer. I set up the backup recovery for them because they had multiple accounts. ...
What needs improvement with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?
Looking for a cloud native scheduler services for ec2 and rds instances within aws virtual private network. That would help to put our instances down in the non business hours very effectively rath...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud?
Our main use case for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is that it is our main network solution. It is mainly used to connect our nodes and also connect our on-premise nodes to the AWS VPC using the sit...
 

Also Known As

AWS RAM
Amazon VPC
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Hess, Expedia, Kelloggs, Philips, HyperTrack
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