We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and AWS Batch based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are that it is stable, flexible, and reliable."
"The product is flexible."
"It has the best auto-scaling features."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is scaling your intra based on the request. Additionally, you are able to map the solution with any load balancer, such as public or private load balancers."
"Auto-scaling is a good feature."
"The monitoring tool is helpful."
"The product's most valuable features are high availability and persistence."
"Can handle traffic spikes so the system doesn't overload."
"AWS Batch's deployment was easy."
"We can easily integrate AWS container images into the product."
"AWS Batch manages the execution of computing workload, including job scheduling, provisioning, and scaling."
"There is one other feature in confirmation or call confirmation where you can have templates of what you want to do and just modify those to customize it to your needs. And these templates basically make it a lot easier for you to get started."
"The product should improve vertical scaling features."
"We would like to see improvement in the UI for this solution, so that it is more user-friendly."
"Automation is very hard."
"The tool must provide proper guidelines to troubleshoot connectivity issues."
"I would like to see the security portal improved in the future."
"The spinning up in the solution can be much faster...The product should have a faster scalability option."
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can provide more discounts when using the machines the solution uses."
"The primary area for improvement is the pricing model."
"AWS Batch needs to improve its documentation."
"When we run a lot of batch jobs, the UI must show the history."
"The main drawback to using AWS Batch would be the cost. It will be more expensive in some cases than using an HPC. It's more amenable to cases where you have spot requirements."
"The solution should include better and seamless integration with other AWS services, like Amazon S3 data storage and EC2 compute resources."
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is ranked 2nd in Compute Service with 37 reviews while AWS Batch is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 4 reviews. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is rated 8.8, while AWS Batch is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling writes "Well-documented setup process and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Batch writes "User-friendly, good customization and offers exceptional scalability, allowing users to run jobs ranging from 32 cores to over 2,000 cores". Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most compared with AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Inference, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Apache NiFi, whereas AWS Batch is most compared with AWS Lambda, Apache Spark, AWS Fargate, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Amazon EC2. See our AWS Batch vs. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling report.
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