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    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAWS 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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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    AWS Auto Scaling
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Auto Scaling
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (17 ratings)
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 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
    It is well suited 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. If there is unpredictability in the demand it is very useful. But it is a over kill if demand is consistent.
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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
    • Set policies to add more instances when CPU utilization exceeds.
    • Prevents downtime, as we don't need to stop the servers.
    • Auto Scaling group can be setup for different types of apps.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Enable cross region auto-scaling. It currently limited to a single region.
    • Support custom health check scripts, deeper integration with application-level metrics. At present, health checks are basic.
    • Adding cost-aware scaling scripts that factor in instance pricing and recommend optimal configurations based on budget constraints.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Update code and configuration when the number of servers is always changing
    • How will user-uploaded content make it to new servers
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Amazon AWS
    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
    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
    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 parts like Autoscale from Microsoft Azure.
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    Amazon AWS
    Used for the below reasons:
    • Easy to implement and use
    • Pay per use, cost savings
    • Automate and build scaling plans
    • Automate performance and workload
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • 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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    Amazon AWS
    • optimized the cost effectiveness
    • save lot of money which help the organization to use it in effective areas
    • Not applicable for all use cases.It is specific use cases and business problems
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