AWS Auto Scaling vs WhatsUp Gold comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Progress Software are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.8, while Progress Software is ranked #26 with an average rating of 8.7. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 0.4% mindshare in APM, compared to Progress Software’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

AWS Auto Scaling

Read 22 AWS Auto Scaling reviews

1,113 Views
1,046 Comparison Views

91% willing to recommend

WhatsUp Gold

Read 25 WhatsUp Gold reviews

6,518 Views
1,760 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

AWS Auto Scaling

WhatsUp Gold

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

WhatsUp Gold and AWS Auto Scaling compete in the market of network monitoring and infrastructure scaling solutions, respectively. WhatsUp Gold scores higher on pricing and customer support, while AWS Auto Scaling dominates in feature set and scalability.

Features:WhatsUp Gold provides comprehensive network monitoring, an intuitive alerting system, and user-friendly dashboards. AWS Auto Scaling offers automatic resource scaling, seamless AWS service integration, and efficient resource management, making it more scalable than WhatsUp Gold.

Room for Improvement:WhatsUp Gold needs better dashboard customization, more extensive reporting tools, and enhanced user experience. AWS Auto Scaling users seek more detailed metric granularity, reduced dependency on other AWS services, and improved standalone metrics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:WhatsUp Gold is known for straightforward deployment and excellent customer support. AWS Auto Scaling is supported by extensive documentation and a helpful community, although it may be harder to learn initially.

Pricing and ROI:WhatsUp Gold offers favorable setup costs and high ROI due to its feature-rich environment that fits users' budgets. AWS Auto Scaling's usage-based pricing can lead to higher initial costs, with recognized long-term ROI from automation efficiency.

To learn more, read our detailed AWS Auto Scaling vs. WhatsUp Gold Report (Updated: March 2026).

Buyer's Guide

AWS Auto Scaling vs. WhatsUp Gold

March 2026

Download the complete report

Helped 885,376 peers since 2012

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

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WhatsUp Gold

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

26th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (24th), Server Monitoring (15th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (19th), Configuration Management (20th), Log Management (35th), Cloud Monitoring Software (21st), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of AWS Auto Scaling is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhatsUp Gold is 1.2%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
AWS Auto Scaling	0.4%
WhatsUp Gold	1.2%
Other	98.4%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Ishaka Michael Efe

DevOps Engineer Intern at HNG Tech

Automation has simplified traffic management and improved workload efficiency

I'm not really sure what improvements I would want to see in AWS Auto Scaling because I haven't really used it extensively or explored most of it. To the extent that I've used it so far, I think it is very good. I can't really say for certain what should be improved because I haven't really explored it a lot. However, what I've been using it for has been very good. If there could be training for AWS Auto Scaling, that would be fine. If you could add more training on how to use it correctly and on the functions that I haven't used before or some people have not really used before, that would help. If there could be more documentation and training on it, that would be beneficial.

Read full review

Erik Cheng

Technical Manager at Quan Hung Gourmet

Efficient monitoring with detailed customization, yet complexity remains

The best feature of WhatsUp Gold is the automatic generation of topology and its integration with virtualization and wireless. I have used the automated device discovery with this topology feature. The interactive map feature helps me manage the topology because sometimes we cannot draw the topology correctly, so we need to manually edit the connections. The alerting system is very tunable and customizable, but it's a little complicated to use. Many customers cannot manage it by themselves and need support from us, the provider. We always use the dashboards in the SOC, where we constantly display a dashboard or multiple dashboards. This allows us to know immediately if the connection or bandwidth is full or if the connection is broken.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

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

"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."

"Auto Scaling is a cool feature that works well and its automatic scaling capabilities are very useful."

"The solution helps optimize the cost of the AWS environment."

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

"The solution's monitoring effectively monitors our application and CPU utilization."

"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."

More AWS Auto Scaling pros

"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."

"The tool's most valuable feature is the visibility it offers of everything in the network and infrastructure."

"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."

"The user interface is good enough."

"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."

"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."

"This product has aided us in procurement and is overall a well-priced solution."

"Their tech support is very good."

More WhatsUp Gold pros

Cons

"The tool must include AI features."

"Setting up the configuration involves too much work for the cloud engineer, like configuring the ALB, the target group, and all the steps."

"The billing and cost optimization of the solution could be improved."

"The solution's infrastructure scalability and elasticity could be improved."

"In comparison to other public clouds, the product is costly."

"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 could add more features for managing instances."

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

More AWS Auto Scaling cons

"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."

"Setting up WhatsUp Gold is complicated and not easy because it requires managing SNMP and many complex settings in the devices it's monitoring, and fine-tuning it to fit our needs is also not very easy."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive."

"The product is old and not updated."

"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."

"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution, but after that, it's possible to do almost anything with it."

"The tool should focus on increasing its market share, as it is the only area of concern where improvements are needed."

"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user."

More WhatsUp Gold cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."

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

"The product has moderate pricing."

"AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."

"The product is expensive."

"AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."

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

"I'm not sure, but it's expensive. We don't pay any additional fees."

"It is per device, per year. The pricing is very clear. If you have a service agreement, you get all of your major upgrades and minor upgrades. It was under $10,000 to go all-in with all of the different add-ons for it."

"This is a well priced solution."

"Pricing is reasonable compared to other products."

"The most valuable feature is the cost compared to other solutions."

"There are some subscription charges that are quite heavy. I need to pay for support every year and these charges can be quite expensive. Aside from the initial cost for the tool, you need to pay additionally for support."

"There is a license needed to use WhatsUp Gold."

"The choice of version depends on the number of points, or devices, that you want to monitor, and this makes the product expensive."

More WhatsUp Gold pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

885,376 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

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...

See all answers

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

I'm not sure about the pricing aspect of AWS Auto Scaling or the cost of it.

See all answers

What needs improvement with AWS Auto Scaling?

See all answers

What do you like most about WhatsUp Gold?

The interactive mapping interface for scrolling, zooming, and drilling down on an element to learn about a network issue is good. When we see a network there will sometimes be a spot that has one l...

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WhatsUp Gold?

Clients find the licensing calculator confusing, but we simplify this for them by collecting relevant information first. The licensing is based on devices, providing better cost-effectiveness than ...

See all answers

What needs improvement with WhatsUp Gold?

It would be great if WhatsUp Gold could add features that simplify management with AI, as it is currently too complicated to manage.

See all answers

Comparisons

VMware Aria Operations for Applications vs AWS Auto Scaling

Compared 22% of the time

Akamai mPulse vs AWS Auto Scaling

Compared 18% of the time

Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) vs AWS Auto Scaling

Compared 18% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs AWS Auto Scaling

Compared 13% of the time

OpenText SiteScope vs AWS Auto Scaling

Compared 10% of the time

More AWS Auto Scaling Competitors

LibreNMS vs WhatsUp Gold

Compared 4% of the time

PRTG Network Monitor vs WhatsUp Gold

Compared 4% of the time

SCOM vs WhatsUp Gold

Compared 4% of the time

ScienceLogic vs WhatsUp Gold

Compared 3% of the time

NinjaOne vs WhatsUp Gold

Compared 3% of the time

More WhatsUp Gold Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

March 2026

Download AWS Auto Scaling product report

Buyer's Guide

WhatsUp Gold

March 2026

Download WhatsUp Gold product report

Also Known As

AWS Auto-Scaling

No data available

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)

Explore and manage your entire network infrastructure effortlessly with WhatsUp Gold's robust layer 2/3 discovery, creating a detailed interactive map from the edge to the cloud. Monitor devices, wireless controllers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and traffic flows across various environments. Real-time alerts ensure optimal performance, allowing you to meet or exceed SLAs. The platform offers customizable maps, dashboards, and alerts for easy network management. Quickly resolve issues with intuitive workflows, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). WhatsUp Gold's integrated log management provides easy visibility and control of device log data, allowing monitoring, filtering, searching, and alerting on syslogs or Windows logs. Archive logs to comply with regulatory requirements and preserve historical data, all through a user-friendly interface. Streamline network monitoring and issue resolution with WhatsUp Gold, making network management efficient and hassle-free.

Progress Software

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers

Artoni Trasporti, Austin Independent School District, Banca Marche, Burke County North Carolina, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Clayco, Community Integrated Care, Desca, Deutsche Bergbau, Flexi-Van, Gropper, Hamleys, Hammonds Furniture, Knowledge IT, Idras S.P.A., Sibeg, Swann Engineering, Trivium Lindenhof

Buyer's Guide

AWS Auto Scaling vs. WhatsUp Gold

March 2026

Free Report: AWS Auto Scaling vs. WhatsUp Gold

Find out what your peers are saying about AWS Auto Scaling vs. WhatsUp Gold and other solutions. Updated: March 2026.

DOWNLOAD NOW

885,376 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our AWS Auto Scaling vs. WhatsUp Gold report.

See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.

We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.