Item: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Rating: 10
Author: Nestor Mendoza

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

Pros and Cons

Set some rules and auto delete instances
Auto assign resources based on our needs, which is perfect to stop the constant monitoring

EC2 more than Auto scaling, they could provide a graphic interface that helps the setup

Most Important Features

Auto scaling UP, mostly used when we're suffering for high rate of information
Historical with all scaling processes

Return on Investment

ROI was accomplished within the first 6 months, so it's perfect

Key Insights

Do you think Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling's feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling again?

Yes

Other Software Used

GoToConnect (formerly Jive), Streak, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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

A great service, that helps reduce costs and improve QoS

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling