Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs. AWS Auto Scaling

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps users maintain application availability and allows users to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to definable conditions.N/A
AWS Auto Scaling
Score 9.1 out of 10
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AWS Auto Scaling monitors applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The vendor states that using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes.N/A
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
The operating system, CPU, RAM, and storage may be constructed in any configuration and readily altered after the build. The most important factor is the "sense of security."Problems may arise once every several years, but there is a significant difference when discussing how …
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
On the servers with fixed resources, Microsoft IIS was installed. In terms of storage capacity, the server has a predetermined limit. It's possible to run out of money before the next billing cycle begins. A higher price tag or more resources may be necessary to ensure …
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
The main reason is our total infra is created on AWS and we tend to use the natural service by AWS rather than third party tools, which has more advantages when the auto scaling interacts with other AWS services and its way easy to configure when we compare it with counter …
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
They are complement with each other. EC2 Auto Scaling + S3 can almost satisfy the needs for most cloud based applications.
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
There are no reasonable alternatives to consider when you're building a highly available application of EC2 instances in AWS. There are alternative high availability architectures to consider, including but not limited Elastic Kubernetes Service or serverless architectures. In …
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
The Oracle Compute Instance Auto scaling features works very similar to the AWS once. However, the AWS EC2 Auto scaling feature has many more config parameters to it.
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
AWS UI's are better to use. They are cleaner. Azure UI looks crowded. AWS instance is faster than Azure. Load balancer emphases in AWS is useful.
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
1 year ago, without auto scaling, every time we think we might have a peak in demand, we launch a new server manually. So far we did not buy it but sometimes the server was not used at all or we forgot to remove from load balancer. Cost was affected a little bit but human …
Chose Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
We tried with dedicated hardware load balancers with two servers a few years ago. It was a huge investment, and involves a lot of work, mainly on the server side. Also, that was not elastic. So if we wanted to go from 2 to 3 servers, we need to buy another server. That works, …
AWS Auto Scaling
Chose AWS Auto Scaling
AWS auto scaling handles the sudden surge in demand very effectively and it is also very cost effective in terms of pricing compared to the other service providers I have used. That is the main reason I opted for AWS auto scaling and also it is very reliable and has less fault …
Chose AWS Auto Scaling
1. AWS Auto Scaling has better UI level configuration. 2. Akamai is cheaper.
Chose AWS Auto Scaling
The hardware provided is decent and customizable. They have lots of different options for everything[.]
Chose AWS Auto Scaling
Used for the below reasons:
  • Easy to implement and use
  • Pay per use, cost savings
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User Ratings
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Usability
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User Testimonials
Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Auto Scaling
Likelihood to Recommend
[Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling] is simple to set up and pretty self-explanatory. Never had issues around scaling up or down. [Now] we won't need to guess the capacity for our apps or services. The both scaling, up and down is simply perfect, you can actually stop checking every time for resources because this tool takes care of everything
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1. When down time needs to be eliminated. 2. Have templates that can be used for future application deployments. 3. Templates can serve as a documentation for keep track of server configuration. 4. Handling of high usage periods like reporting season.
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Pros
  • Dynamic scaling can be configured to respond to a wide variety of metrics and alerts
  • Predictive scaling allows one to get ahead of high traffic events rather than simply reacting to them
  • Health checks are configurable based on the needs of your application and architecture
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  • Smart scaling decisions
  • Automatically maintain performance
  • Pay per use
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Cons
  • Sometimes, Auto scaling takes time to spin up your instances if your traffic is so high in short span of time.
  • And, Auto scaling can be more efficient if we have only Load balancer in our architecture.
  • It has some limitations on setting up the Auto scaling infra.
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  • Auto scaling features are very easy to use it.
  • can decrease numbers steps to configure the auto scaling functionality
  • New GUI screen need to improve for auto scaling functionality
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Usability
Usability is good since we already know how AWS works. For those that are new it might be a little bit confusing at the beginning but they are improving it at a fast pace. Even though AWS keeps changing the user interface constantly, it is still powerful, understandable and easy to use. For technical people, they still offer the CLI.
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We use AWS auto scaling for scaling up our cloud virtual machines to handle the increase or decrease in workload. It really helps us to satisfy the demand because it doesn't take lot of time to spin up new machines. I gave the rating 10 because it really does help you to handle the sudden spike in number of requests.
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Support Rating
The platform works as is. The help and tutorials on the help page can help you to setup the entire platform without problems, and also provides help on a huge variety of problems. Amazon also provides support plans. We have the basic support plan, but Amazon offers three support tiers, and we know that it works perfect.
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Alternatives Considered
The operating system, CPU, RAM, and storage may be constructed in any configuration and readily altered after the build. The most important factor is the "sense of security."Problems may arise once every several years, but there is a significant difference when discussing how to cope with hardware problems in the local age.
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AWS auto scaling handles the sudden surge in demand very effectively and it is also very cost effective in terms of pricing compared to the other service providers I have used. That is the main reason I opted for AWS auto scaling and also it is very reliable and has less fault tolerance.
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Return on Investment
  • We will devote more time to development than server administration, but we will require additional time if you migrate from another ecosystem.
  • Fault detection and reporting are automated in the old server, and bandwidth is fixed per month, but everything is manageable automatically. We only pay for the resources we use.
  • After some months, we met our return on investment (ROI).
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  • Better fault tolerance.
  • Almost availability of our services
  • Reduced cost
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