AWS Auto Scaling vs Dynatrace comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Dynatrace and AWS Auto Scaling compete in the performance monitoring and automatic scaling categories, respectively. Dynatrace offers more comprehensive monitoring features, while AWS Auto Scaling provides excellent flexibility and integration within the AWS ecosystem.

Features: Dynatrace is known for its AI-driven automation, extensive observability, and quick root-cause analysis. AWS Auto Scaling is valued for its seamless integration with AWS services, cost efficiency, and easy setup process.

Room for Improvement: Dynatrace users suggest enhancing dashboard customization, reducing licensing complexity, and improving user-friendly features. AWS Auto Scaling users recommend improved user experience documentation, better predictive scaling tools, and enhancements in complex scenario instructions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dynatrace users find deployment straightforward but suggest improvements in initial setup guidance and customer support responsiveness. AWS Auto Scaling users enjoy easy integration but desire more detailed instructions for complex scenarios.

Pricing and ROI: Dynatrace users acknowledge higher setup costs but emphasize its value due to advanced capabilities and strong ROI. AWS Auto Scaling is seen as cost-effective with a clear ROI due to its pay-as-you-go model.

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AWS Auto Scaling vs. Dynatrace

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Auto Scaling

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

15th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Dynatrace

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

349

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (11th), Mobile APM (2nd), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AWS Auto Scaling is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dynatrace is 10.2%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Mbula Mboma

AWS Cloud Re-Start Program Specialist at Orange RDC (Congo)

Boosts deployment efficiency with seamless automatic scaling capabilities

My primary use case for Auto Scaling is mainly to deploy applications at scale Auto Scaling has made the deployment of applications more efficient, allowing us to manage traffic and maintain performance as user counts increase. Auto Scaling is a cool feature that works well and its automatic…

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Anand_Kumar

Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

Provides a comprehensive view by integrating with other monitoring systems

There may be an issue since there are many tools like Splunk involved in network monitoring. From an IP perspective, Dynatrace is performing well. If they want to develop in network monitoring, they can, as it's part of their product line. It's not rocketry, so they can accomplish it. If I, as an SI, look at it from an enterprise perspective, considering the cost from the client, I prefer not to go with multiple systems, as they don't provide a complete 360-degree view. They need to improve on claims about being an enterprise system. The definition of enterprise is loosely used, however, from a holistic security perspective, including infrastructure, network, ports, software, applications, transactions, and databases, there are areas lacking, especially in network monitoring tools.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The tool's most valuable feature is vertical auto-scaling, which is easy to use. However, most companies now prefer horizontal scaling. I set up the health check integration to monitor CPU usage. When it reaches seventy percent, it sends me an email notification."

"AWS Auto Scaling is cost-effective and very useful for businesses."

"I like the graphs provided by the tool."

"AWS Auto Scaling is very good for managing traffic and creating new instances when necessary."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to select a minimum amount of active servers so that a new server automatically launches if one fails."

"The various scaling options available, such as step scaling, are particularly useful."

"It can scale."

"The setup is not very complex."

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"We use it, in many instances, to find the root cause in production."

"With the Agentless monitoring and ability to create custom plugins, we've been able to transform the tool not just into a great APM solution but a really good enterprise monitoring solution too."

"Logs files for JVM transactions help to debug most of the failures."

"Automatic instrumentation of new services and technology without the need to install specific agents or modules."

"The way it shows a problem on the dashboard is pretty good."

"From the monitoring perspective, the ability to triage quickly is important, and the ability to alert and tell people where the problem is."

"It provides us a reference for being able to go back and look at data at a certain point, analyze it, then determine if something was the root cause."

"Helps us to shorten down the time for triaging an issue."

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Cons

"It could be cheaper."

"The tool's stability could be improved."

"The product’s pricing needs improvement."

"Flexibility in configuring the workload is missing in AWS Auto Scaling."

"There hasn't been a need for improvements."

"AWS Auto Scaling's documentation could be better."

"The solution is not out-of-the-box and you have to study to use it. It should be more easier to use."

"The only area of improvement is the speed at which servers are launched. When cleaning up to six servers at a time, it can take up to 15 to 20 minutes to launch new servers."

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"This solution needs more powerful database monitoring capabilities."

"Need better mapping to true business service rather than purely technical monitoring."

"I would also like to see it baselining more metrics out-of-the-box. We have a lot of rich data, but if someone says, "Well how did that look last week?" If you're looking at a problem and you see, for example, a long SQL statement, is that the root cause, or is it always slow. it's difficult to get historical data."

"In the next release, I would like to see some new reports and more tiles on the Dashboard."

"Dynatrace must reduce the required resources for on-premise, because they are too high."

"When compared with other tools, the experience needs improvement. I would like them to build out the interactions and make them friendlier."

"They need to improve on claims about being an enterprise system."

"It definitely needs HA, because we have so many applications that are dependent on AppMon that it has been deemed critical. Any downtime, it just affects so many users. So that's one of our key asks for the future."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive."

"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."

"The product has moderate pricing."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."

"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."

"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."

"We license it for two environments, typically all of production and all of one lower environment, usually our staging environment. If there is a downside to Dynatrace, the only thing I can think of would be the cost. If it were cheaper, I'd have it in all my environments. I don't think they're charging more than it's worth, by any means. It's just that good software costs money."

"The pricing is not bad, but it could be better."

"The licensing model is confusing in solutioning clients for the number of hosts needed to deploy."

"There is time savings. People's times have been cut in half using this solution because we were previously doing a lot of that manual work. Now, it's a lot more automated, and the data is just there."

"Financially Dynatrace was a lot more expensive than AppDynamics."

"The pricing and licensing are very expensive."

"Dynatrace has a place for everybody. How you use it and what your budgetary limitations are will dictate what you do with it. But it's within everybody's reach. If you're a small organization and you have a large infrastructure, you may not be able to monitor the whole thing. You may have to pick and choose what you want to monitor, and you have the ability to do so. Your available funds are going to dictate that."

"Make sure your leadership buy-in is in place. Ensure leadership understands that an APM solution is a fairly expensive, so they know what they are getting into."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AWS Auto Scaling?

The tool's most valuable feature is vertical auto-scaling, which is easy to use. However, most companies now prefer horizontal scaling. I set up the health check integration to monitor CPU usage. W...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Auto Scaling?

The pricing of Auto Scaling is medium range, neither high nor low.

What needs improvement with AWS Auto Scaling?

It is sometimes very critical to deploy on AWS since some servers are already running in the background. There are challenges for employees on how to deploy at a given time. It requires a downtime ...

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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Overview

AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. The service provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets you build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas. AWS Auto Scaling makes scaling simple with recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them. If you’re already using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to dynamically scale your Amazon EC2 instances, you can now combine it with AWS Auto Scaling to scale additional resources for other AWS services. With AWS Auto Scaling, your applications always have the right resources at the right time.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Dynatrace is an AI-powered software intelligence monitoring platform that accelerates digital transformation and simplifies cloud complexities. Dynatrace is an entirely automated full-stack solution that provides data and answers about the performance of your applications and deep insight into every transaction throughout every application, including the end-user experience. By modernizing and automating enterprise cloud operations, users can deliver an optimal digital experience with higher quality software to customers faster.

Dynatrace offers an all-in-one automated artificial intelligence solution that brings together application performance, cloud and infrastructure, and digital experience monitoring. Dynatrace accelerates performance-driven results through operations, development, and business teams with a shared metrics platform. In addition, users are provided a full-stack monitoring experience with three patented technologies:

Smartscape - visualization mechanism that maps the totality of everything working in your environment and detects any casual dependencies between your applications, processes, websites, services, hosts, cloud infrastructure, and networks.
OneAgent - a technology that analyzes, gathers ,and unifies all business performance metrics throughout every layer of your technology stack.
PurePath Technology - code-level context and timings are captured from the mainframe to the cloud for all end-to-end transactions.

What does Dynatrace offer?

Dynatrace redefines how organizations monitor their digital ecosystems. The solution offers:

Cloud Automation: With AI engine Davis®, users can see the exact reason for problems and facilitate quick auto-remediation and intelligent cloud orchestration.
Application Security: With automated application vulnerability management, users can deliver applications faster and more securely.
Infrastructure Monitoring: Convenient broad visibility across your environments is provided with streamlined, automated infrastructure monitoring.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Optimize your applications, provide better support, and improve user experience with a combination of Real User Monitoring (RUM), Session Replay, and synthetic monitoring throughout your environment.
Applications and Microservices: For complex cloud environments, Dynatrace can automatically provide visibility and root-cause answers. It can also monitor microservices.
Digital Business Analytics: Get AI-powered, real-time answers to analytical business queries with KPIs and metrics that are already flowing through applications.

Reviews from Real Users

Dynatrace is the only solution that provides answers to organizations based on deep insight into each user, transaction, and organization's environment.

Barry P., a managing performance engineer at Medica Health Plans, writes, "With Dynatrace, we have synthetic checks and real-user monitoring of all of our websites, places where members and providers can interact with us over the web. We monitor the response times of those with Dynatrace, and it's all integrated into one place."

A consultant at a tech service company notes, "A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

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