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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs Apache NiFi comparison

 

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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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Ranking in Compute Service
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Apache NiFi
Ranking in Compute Service
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is 9.3%, down from 13.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apache NiFi is 9.3%, up from 8.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Compute Service Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling9.3%
Apache NiFi9.3%
Other81.4%
Compute Service
 

Featured Reviews

Karthikeyan Ganesan - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Bharghava Raghavendra Beesa - PeerSpot reviewer
The tool enables effective data transformation and integration
There are some areas for improvement, particularly with record-level tasks that take a bit of time. The quality of JSON data processing could be improved, as JSON workloads require manual conversions without a specific process. Enhancing features related to alerting would be helpful, including mobile alerts for pipeline issues. Integration with mobile devices for error alerts would simplify information delivery.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is flexible."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I like the fact that you don't need to pay for it when you aren't using it, especially in a disaster recovery scenario. The pricing is transparent, so you know what you're going to pay for it."
"Service for launching or terminating Amazon EC2 instances, with good scalability and stability."
"What we have found most valuable are the purchasing of usage at the time and small storage."
"The monitoring tool is helpful."
"Auto-scaling is a good feature."
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling operates at a different level, working in parallel to efficiently manage workload distribution. Primarily, it focuses on orchestration rather than directly managing EC2 instances for deployment and configuration. It uses automated processes to deploy and manage ports, leveraging Application Load Balancers to effectively handle data communication and management."
"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."
"The initial setup is very easy. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one point is difficult, and ten points are easy."
"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."
"Visually, this is a good product."
"Apache NiFi is user-friendly. Its most valuable features for handling large volumes of data include its multitude of integrated endpoints and clients and the ability to create cron jobs to run tasks at regular intervals."
"The user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."
"It is highly effective for handling real-time data by working with APIs for immediate and continuous data extraction."
 

Cons

"The product's setup is complex for an intermediate user."
"What could be improved in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is its fees."
"Amazon should provide more detailed training materials for people who are just starting to work with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling."
"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."
"There should be an AWS instance in South Africa, where the latency would be even lower. It might happen soon since AWS has recently opened more data centres in Nigeria. AWS may extend its reach to South Africa, and offer hosted CLI servers there. Most of the problems with AWS are not to do with the solution itself but with configuration. It is something on design, more or less."
"We would like to see improvement in the UI for this solution, so that it is more user-friendly."
"Scalability can be improved."
"It should work for the cloud, cloud monitoring features, and DevOps processes. It should automatically enable features for downscaling and upscaling."
"The overall stability of this solution could be improved. In a future release, we would like to have access to more features that could be used in a parallel way. This would provide more freedom with processing."
"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"The tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases."
"There is room for improvement in integration with SSO. For example, NiFi does not have any integration with SSO. And if I want to give some kind of rollback access control across the organization. That is not possible."
"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
"The quality of JSON data processing could be improved, as JSON workloads require manual conversions without a specific process."
"We run many jobs, and there are already large tables. When we do not control NiFi on time, all reports fail for the day. So it's pretty slow to control, and it has to be improved."
"More features must be added to the product."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is less expensive than a few competitors."
"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."
"Amazon EC2 instances can be very expensive."
"The solution pricing varies by service region is mid-range."
"The pricing is not fixed and it is based on usage."
"It's cost-effective."
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model."
"There is no specific pricing for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, but we have to pay for the number of machines getting scaled up."
"The solution is open-source."
"I used the tool's free version."
"We use the free version of Apache NiFi."
"It's an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Retailer
7%
University
7%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Retailer
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise25
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
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 e...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
The costing for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is equivalent to creating Amazon EC2 servers. For instance, if one dollar is paid for a single Amazon EC2 machine, the same cost applies for Amazon EC2 Auto ...
What needs improvement with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
Amazon should provide more detailed training materials for people who are just starting to work with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Documentation should be provided according to region. For example, in I...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache NiFi?
Apache NiFi is open-source and free. Its integration with systems like Cloudera can be expensive, but Apache NiFi itself presents the best pricing as a standalone tool.
What needs improvement with Apache NiFi?
The logging system of Apache NiFi needs improvement. It is difficult to debug compared to Airflow ( /products/apache-airflow-reviews ), where task details and issues are clear. With Apache NiFi, I ...
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Macquarie Telecom Group, Dovestech, Slovak Telekom, Looker, Hastings Group
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