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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps users maintain application availability and allows users to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to definable conditions.

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What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps users maintain application availability and allows users to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to definable conditions.

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Product Demos

AWS EC2 AutoScaling Group - Amazon Web Services Tutorial 2021

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Reviews and Ratings

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December 30, 2020

AWS Auto scaling really automates your resources based on demand and saves you time and cost

CB
Carlos Becerra
Senior Software Engineer & Project Manager
WiFiesta Inc (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is being used by [our] development team. Due to its high technical nature dev-ops team manage the configuration. We use it for 2 main purposes: a) increase/decrease the resources based on demand b) deployment with zero down time by deploying a new server with new setup and code and removing [the[ old server after[wards].
Pros and Cons
  • Automation.
  • Increase/decrease capacity on demand based on rules.
  • Very flexible, but technical tool.
  • See server logs seamless[ly] while increasing/decreasing capacity.
  • Be much easier to manage and configure [for] a non-technical person
  • Might need other tools to make admins tasks easier.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited when you really meet their requirement to handle increase/decrease resources based on demand. Without it, the process should be done manually and can be error-prone due to human intervention on repetitive tasks. Automation is the key word here. The problem would be the complexity or technicality it might add but with clear dev-ops team or documentation or a manual of how to use it might be fine.
Return on Investment
  • Automation. Less time of human intervention for repetitive tasks.
  • Cost reduction. Pay as you [go] fits good.
  • Works fine with other AWS services.
Alternatives Considered
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 intervention was always required constantly.
Usability
8
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.
Support Rating
8
For basic and non-complex set ups there [are] a lot of tutorials and information out there on the internet. You can solve pretty much any problem you are dealing with. AWS also provides different support plans. In our case, since we have a dev-ops team we do not need any support plan yet, but we can reconsider it in the future since we are growing.
Other Software Used
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
November 05, 2020

Feel the true power of the cloud

Verified User
Project Manager in Engineering
Entertainment Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Since it's a[n] extremely technical tool, it's being used by the engineering department. Our area uses it mainly for websites, in combination with Amazon Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), that make the perfect match.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling help[s] us on moments when our websites received pikes of high traffic, to keep the [server] running, and without our intervention.
Pros and Cons
  • Automatic capacity increases based on rules.
  • No user intervention.
  • Very flexible tool.
  • Sometimes decrease rules may not work.
  • New scaling policy creation is a bit confusing and do[es] no[t] have help.
  • Previous scaling policy screen no longer exists, so you need to understand what new interface actually does.
Likelihood to Recommend
Despite the problems with the lack of information (and help) on the new user interface, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is a terrific tool that show[s] us easily the power of "the cloud". Only a few years ago, increasing server capacity involved weeks or months of planning, and a hefty budget in some cases. Now, with the Auto Scaling capacity, you can increase and decrease capacity with a rule, and without a long commitment and investment on hardware.
Return on Investment
  • Simplifies server operations.
  • Reduces costs.
  • Increases application reliability.
Alternatives Considered
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, but that was not a good experience.
Usability
7
The new interface is an improvement on several ways over the old one, but, as usual from Amazon, they changed some behaviors - so if you are already a user, probably you need to learn how to do some tasks that you used to in the new way. No explanation on why [they] changed the interface and how it's better, etc. You just you need to learn how to do it on the new interface.

Despite that annoying habit from Amazon of changing everything, the new interface is clear and works. But beware that in the future that would change again, with no explanation whatsoever.
Support Rating
9
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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