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AWS Auto Scaling vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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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
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (15th)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
315
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st), IT Operations Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Auto Scaling is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 0.2%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
Splunk Enterprise Security, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 9.4% mindshare, down 12.1% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

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…
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Auto Scaling is a cool feature that works well and its automatic scaling capabilities are very useful."
"The setup is not very complex."
"It helps us to reduce the cost."
"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."
"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."
"When a lot of traffic comes into our organization, the product scales our instances based on our environment’s requirements."
"You can use it to gather syslog messages from anything."
"We can automatically suspend or terminate suspicious sessions."
"The consolidated overview of all the events that come in through our environment and an easy-to-access interface for all our end users are valuable."
"The product provides visibility and enables us to correlate data and generate alerts."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk Enterprise Security is the comprehensive logging capabilities it provides."
"Speeds up root cause analysis and can help identify issues that your organization never realized were occurring."
"Splunk allows us to find insights that we were not able to with traditional BI tools using ETL​. It allows us to dig into raw events."
"We can ingest and correlate data from virtually any type of system."
 

Cons

"The tool must include AI features."
"It has latency issues. It depends on the distribution used, whether it's Amazon Linux, Windows Linux, etc. Occasionally, there are latency issues, which might lead to slower performance."
"It could be cheaper."
"Flexibility in configuring the workload is missing in AWS Auto Scaling."
"The tool's stability could be improved."
"AWS Auto Scaling's documentation could be better."
"The solution must improve automation."
"The solution is not out-of-the-box and you have to study to use it. It should be more easier to use."
"The complexity could be worked on so that it's even easier and faster."
"I would like more assistance with use cases and help with teaching us how to use it once it's installed."
"An area of improvement would be the licensing of the solution. They need a free license, which would allow faster lead times."
"It does not give us permission to implement on-premise so we implement them on the cloud."
"If it could be made available as a service, this would be much better than as a product."
"The price has room for improvement."
"We'd like Splunk to reduce false positives."
"The only thing which can be improved is that they are too subjective on whom their Splunk4Good initiative can be applied. They market it as you only need to be a nonprofit, but there is more to it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product has moderate pricing."
"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."
"The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."
"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."
"The product is expensive."
"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."
"It's more expensive than the other tools, but it's worth it. Every penny is worth it."
"It is quite expensive."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive."
"Its pricing model can be improved."
"The cost is on the high end, which makes it difficult for some organizations to use."
"I think the price could be improved."
"The price of Splunk Enterprise Security is high."
"The price of Splunk is too high for our market."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
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 ...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
 

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AWS Auto-Scaling
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