Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs. AWS Auto Scaling

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Score 9.1 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 8.7 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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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Auto Scaling
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(15 ratings)
8.9
(3 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(2 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Auto Scaling
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
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.
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Amazon AWS
There are two elements to auto-scaling. The first, adding/removing servers when [the] load varies, is the easy part. This is what AWS Auto Scaling does. The second is orchestration. This making sure your read replica doesn't receive requests until it is operational or making sure that your new [webserver] has finished starting JBoss, updating its sources, and loading your application before it is registered with the load balancer[.]
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • 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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Amazon AWS
  • Smart scaling decisions
  • Automatically maintain performance
  • Pay per use
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • 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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Amazon AWS
  • 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
Amazon AWS
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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Amazon AWS
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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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Amazon AWS
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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 everything works as expected. Oracle Compute Instance Autoscaling works like AWS once. But AWS EC2 Autoscaling has many more configuration options. AWS EC2 Automatic Scaling eliminates the need to visit the server and assess its performance physically.
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Amazon AWS
The hardware provided is decent and customizable. They have lots of different options for everything[.]
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • There is no need to maintain infrastructural equipment.
  • There is no need to switch the electricity off or on in the case of a legitimate power outage.
  • The system frequently had issues when turned on, and labor frequently continued on all night, but by transferring to the cloud, that effort might be spared.
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Amazon AWS
  • Pay per use, great ROI.
  • Saves cost across departments.
  • Workload and pc.
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