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90% willing to recommend
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100% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between AWS Auto Scaling and Scout APM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"I like the graphs provided by the tool.""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.""The tool gives you the flexibility to scale up and grow. The solution is also fast to deploy.""It efficiently handles traffic, ensuring we are not running expenses and the infrastructure is strong enough to handle the load.""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.""When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements.""The solution's monitoring effectively monitors our application and CPU utilization.""It can scale."

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"The product can scale."

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Cons
"In comparison to other public clouds, the product is costly.""The solution's infrastructure scalability and elasticity could be improved.""The tool must include AI features.""The solution must improve automation.""The product could add more features for managing instances.""Flexibility in configuring the workload is missing in AWS Auto Scaling.""The solution is not out-of-the-box and you have to study to use it. It should be more easier to use.""We can have more auto scaling algorithms implemented in AWS Auto Scaling."

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"I can't recall coming across any missing features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."
  • "The product has moderate pricing."
  • "The product is expensive."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The various scaling options available, such as step scaling, are particularly useful.
    Top Answer:AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution. We pay a monthly licensing fee for the solution.
    Top Answer:While I haven't found any significant need for improvement in AWS Auto Scaling, the setup can be a bit complex in some situations.
    Top Answer:The product can scale.
    Top Answer:Users pay for licensing on a yearly basis. In general, the pricing is great. It's very reasonable.
    Top Answer:I can't recall coming across any missing features. Its capabilities are pretty broad.
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    Also Known As
    AWS Auto-Scaling
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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.

    Scout APM is an application performance monitoring solution that simplifies the troubleshooting process by enabling developers to discover and repair performance problems before clients ever notice them. Scout APM uses a developer-based UI with real-time alerting and intuitive tracing logic to identify bottlenecks precisely to the source code. This helps to greatly reduce time and effort needed to debug code and results in greater productivity and improved outcomes.

    Scout APM facilitates the ability of developers to break down, discover, and prioritize performance issues such as N+1 queries, latent database queries, memory bloat, and more, and accomplishes these results at a fraction of the cost. Scout APM monitors Elixir, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby.

    Scout APM is built by developers, for developers.

    Scout APM Features

    • 24/7 monitoring: Continuous, consistent monitoring proactively keeps users apprised of any performance deviations. Intuitive dashboards allow users to deep-dive into specific requests, paths, users, and endpoints attached to any performance slowdowns or bloating.

    • Quick and easy analysis: Should a slowdown occur or an increased response time be discovered, users have an easy to use drag-and-drop option to simply and quickly analyze every endpoint and dissect any anomalies. Scout APM will pinpoint the precise user or endpoint(s) responsible for the problem.

    • Intuitive trace logic: Users are able to quickly deep-dive and discover slow requests based on average responses or any/all requests.

    • Crossfilter powerhouse: Crossfilter is a Scout APM feature that allows users to quickly discover similarities with any/all slow requests back to the user or endpoint.

    • Easily discover bottlenecks: With Scout APM, users can easily pinpoint bottlenecks to the exact source code without any additional custom instrumentation. The solution uses a production-safe profiler to fully examine users' custom codes.

    • Developer tracing: Scout APM uses backtraces that are embedded with git blame output so developers of the code can be quickly identified and contacted to resolve issues and concerns immediately.

    • Cost-effective: Scout APM is an open-source solution and offers many flexible pricing options to meet any size business, from small to enterprise level, including custom options. The cost per transaction decreases based on usage and works very efficiently with applications with very high throughput. Scout APM also offers a free trial period and encourages its usage so users can best understand and gauge the level of service needed and determine the best pricing plan to meet organizational needs. Scout APM is considered to be significantly cheaper than many other APM solutions in the marketplace today.

    Reviews from Real Users

    “The solution is stable. It's pretty easy to set up, especially if you have the knowledge base and/or you have a partner assist you. The product can scale. The processes are great. It helps with services and microservices. The product is great for many different industries, including energy, government, finance, and more. It's allowed our company to be more forward-thinking and to consider the future a bit more. ” - Antonio B., Regional Manager LatAm at Splunk

    Sample Customers
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    Chargify, Synctree, Aptuitiv, Barnes and Noble, Journey, Geosnapshot, Kongregate, PaperTrail, Adobe, SendGrid, Sentry
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Non Tech Company18%
    Retailer9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Government14%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Retailer16%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise48%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise2%
    Large Enterprise79%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise51%
    Buyer's Guide
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    AWS Auto Scaling is ranked 15th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 18 reviews while Scout APM is ranked 32nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 1 review. AWS Auto Scaling is rated 8.8, while Scout APM is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of AWS Auto Scaling writes "The product helps reduce costs and avoids interruptions to the customer experience". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scout APM writes "Great visibility and reliability with fair pricing". AWS Auto Scaling is most compared with , whereas Scout APM is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic and Grafana.

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