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AWS Auto Scaling vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 11, 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

AWS Auto Scaling
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
15th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Splunk AppDynamics
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
249
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (5th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 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 Splunk AppDynamics is 4.6%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

Mbula Mboma - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
Gyanesh Rahatekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Application performance management and error resolution improved with data-driven insights
Dynatrace has multiple functions compared to Splunk AppDynamics, so Splunk AppDynamics should add those functions, which are not available as of now. Dynatrace has a universal agent that collects all information related to their CI, and if one CI has multiple languages, then there is no need to instrument multiple agents. However, Splunk AppDynamics requires multiple agents; if I have one server with multiple applications in different languages, then I need to instrument different agents for each application. Splunk AppDynamics should work with Dynatrace with one single universal agent that works with all application languages, eliminating the need for multiple implementations.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements."
"The product provides self-healing features."
"It efficiently handles traffic, ensuring we are not running expenses and the infrastructure is strong enough to handle the load."
"The solution helps optimize the cost of the AWS environment."
"I like the graphs provided by the tool."
"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."
"Our internal business applications are hosted in AWS Auto Scaling."
"AWS Auto Scaling is cost-effective and very useful for businesses."
"The solution is very, very stable. We haven't faced any bugs or glitches on the system."
"It has improved my organization because we are able to proactively and reactively look at performance issues."
"We have found the scalability to be quite good."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ability to discover and track transactions."
"AppDynamics is easy to implement if you follow the documentation, and the documentation that they provide is good."
"The real user monitoring helps us evaluate our customers' real experiences, which is valuable as an eCommerce company."
"AppDynamics has a very broad range of supported technologies, and it's user-friendly. It looks nice, and it's easy to sell the solution to the stakeholders when we can visualize how the website is working. For example, where we have any problems through visual analytics."
"I like how the AppDynamics dashboard portrays the information flows. When a task is executed, various flows between different applications and databases happen in the background. The dashboard is intuitive and helps visualize the connections, the directions of the flow, and the information related to these specific sessions."
 

Cons

"The solution's infrastructure scalability and elasticity could be improved."
"The solution is not out-of-the-box and you have to study to use it. It should be more easier to use."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
"There hasn't been a need for improvements."
"The speed of the solution must be improved."
"Flexibility in configuring the workload is missing in AWS Auto Scaling."
"The product could add more features for managing instances."
"The billing and cost optimization of the solution could be improved."
"I would like to see some cosmetic enhancements."
"Based on the user experience feedback that we have had, I think that the most important thing to improve is the availability of the SaaS, the cloud environment."
"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."
"If you have a single URL and all the operations are coming in as part of the header, you will not be able to segregate them for different actions."
"The integration with cloud services is still pending with AppDynamics. We would like the product to be serverless."
"There may be some older technologies that are still covered, however, it's not as plug-and-play. You can still do it, however, it takes slightly more effort for engineers to cover old technologies such as C++, Delphi, and so on. It still can be done. It's just not as easy as, for example, covering Java."
"The training on the dashboards that is provided could be a little bit better, as could the use cases. They should have some good examples out there. As it is right now, I had to scour YouTube to find some stuff."
"The interface and user experience could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."
"The product has moderate pricing."
"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."
"The product is expensive."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."
"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."
"AppDynamics is an expensive solution."
"Yearly payments have to be made toward the licensing costs of the solution. The solution has no additional costs apart from the licensing costs."
"AppDynamics is priced on the higher side."
"It is not a cheap tool, but you also save in manpower to setup because it is easy and fast. At the end of the day, I think the revenue is much better. BUT, they have an awful co-term mode of licensing."
"It does require licensing to be paid."
"AppDynamics offers a yearly basis license."
"I give the price a five out of ten."
"There is an annual cost for the use of this solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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?
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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