Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using AWS EC2 for most of our server requirements. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling service improves the use of AWS EC2. It automatically replaces the instances with bad health conditions, it allows to sleep a server when there are low loads, etc. The main function of AWS EC2 Auto Scaling is that it saves us from any unpredictable server breakdowns by scaling the servers according to the requirements.

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling is well suited for you if you are using AWS EC2 instances for your deployment requirements and you want to build an auto-scaling solution. If you do not want to break down your deployment in between, you should set up the auto-scaling along with the load balancers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sometimes, you start by configuring a server with the smallest configuration, but I think it is good to be able to find the one that suits your needs in the AWS market and simplify the server configuration procedure. There are so many virtual appliances that you can't choose. Because the infrastructure is handled by AWS, services may be put on the network without the need for networking skills. The greatest advantage is that users may concentrate just on programs.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to establish a system right away, in the past it took weeks or months to request a quote from the vendor and receive the equipment. Now, with Amazon EC2 in less than tens of minutes or hours, you can create a test environment and test it without any inconvenience.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We hosted an e-commerce website for a client on ec2 instance and plan to provide high availability prevent downtime as it is a must requirement for every site. So we use Ec2 autoscaling which is very helpful for us to divide the load between servers, scale our site, and makes the resources to sleep when there is no need of it and makes it able to run and consume when facing high load which helps in better performance as well as for billing. EC2 Autoscaling monitors the site metrics like its load hits and usage etc. and helps us to improve site performance. It is also pocket friendly, as it helps to save resources and cost very efficiently

Likelihood to Recommend

We were concerned about improving our billing by the method which helps us save charges for the resources. We were concerned to improve our billing by the method which helps us save charges for the resources that are not in use. Because it is a waste of resources as well as money so we use auto scaling which allows us not to sacrifice the performance by using fewer resources and saving bills

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using AWS Autoscaling, Amazon has created an excellent tool for scaling the instances it makes. To host various types of Web Applications, we use the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance. CMSs, APIs, and MySQL databases are just a few examples. We begin with micro models and then scale up as users grow. Sending more resources to sleep increases their availability while decreasing their cost. The best thing about AWS Autoscaling is that it’s free. So we don’t have to pay for unused resources. Besides, they can adapt to our needs. It is cheap and can detect flaws in our sample to show unhealthiness. The existing instance is ended during an Autoscaling process, and a new one is created.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon EC2's auto-scaling feature is straightforward to configure. It's also a reasonably simple process to follow. Scaling up or down has not been an issue. It is a perk of using AWS. Users should incorporate this feature into their work systems to get the most out of the cloud EC2 instance. Our apps and services won't have to guess resources. The tool does an excellent job of scaling up or down.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used to create instances and dynamic scaling to provide response to warnings. We can set up different environment without using physical system. It is used under the different department across the company and it is used to resolve the problems like autoscaling by providing minimum number of instructions. It automatically find issues and try to resolve or notify to admin.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very useful option when we want to make our application or product more reliable and always try to maintain instance available. Some time feel delay in system after creating the instance other than that it has seamless experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon EC2 is used to host all the servers we run our applications on.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for hosting files, websites, and applications on the internet rather than using multiple third parties.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling in the whole is being used totally by the organization across various domains and verticals. And, the best thing is it can auto scale the EC2 instances as per our instances and through the settings we have pre defined. Also, it has health checks which comes in handy.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suitable cases would be, the capacity the spin up and spin down the EC2 instances and the way it works with AWS resources is way to good. And the best part is the interconnection between these resources are totally taken care by AWS internally.

The place where AWS can improve is the timing it takes to spin up the instances in short span of time.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling] is being used by one department (IT) but includes the whole company, since we've using this for a mail server, which is working perfectly fine. AWS always offers the best options for Virtual environments and storage, It completely solved our emails issues and more

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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Some of our internal cloud applications are based on AWS and almost all of them utilize the auto scaling feature. It's used across multiple engineering departments.

Likelihood to Recommend

When you have a simple auto scaling use case and it does not require complex rules.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We implement EC2 Auto Scaling in a variety of ways. It is used to prevent downtime or service degradation during or in preparation for heavy traffic volume, it is used as a disaster recovery sometimes in an auto-scaling group of 1 where an instance will recreate itself should it be determined to be unhealthy for any reason, and it is also used to segregate clusters of compute instances that handle different types of workloads.

Likelihood to Recommend

I cannot think of any reason to NOT use EC2 auto-scaling except if you're just quickly testing something on a single instance and plan to terminate it after.