We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and AWS Lambda based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both products are very effective in providing compute service (IaaS) solutions. AWS Lambda slightly nudges ahead of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling as many users feel it is easier to code using the solution. AWS Lambda is serverless, server configuration is not required, and can easily run it directly anywhere.
"The product’s most valuable feature is the seamless resizing of web connection."
"Most of what I've deployed are CI/CD pipelines. AWS is scalable. You can always increase or adjust the resources to meet the specific requirements. I also like choosing an instance in any location, preferably the closest one. We don't have any AWS locations in South Africa, but the latency is about the same as hosting in Europe."
"The support from Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is very good."
"What we have found most valuable are the purchasing of usage at the time and small storage."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution incorporates ease of maintenance and reduction in operational overhead and costs. Patching is also easy."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is scaling your intra based on the request. Additionally, you are able to map the solution with any load balancer, such as public or private load balancers."
"The product's most valuable features are high availability and persistence."
"I like the pay-for-what-you-use feature. This is the main reason why we use AWS Lambda. I don't have to manage servers; I just have to configure Lambda and expose it to an API gateway."
"The most valuable feature is that there is no need to implement it in a server because it is a service."
"AWS Lambda's best features are log analysis and event triggering and actioning."
"The solution works for small applications. It is a serverless tool that is quick to spin up. We needn’t consider anything in the bag."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the API Gateway."
"The tool scales automatically based on the number of incoming requests."
"It enables the launch of thousands of instances simultaneously,"
"The programming language and the integration with other AWS services are the most valuable features."
"The licensing cost is expensive."
"The technical support needs to be improved."
"The price could always be a bit better."
"The primary area for improvement is the pricing model."
"There is room for improvement in the scalability."
"The product's setup is complex for an intermediate user."
"When creating a new instance there is a set of questions that have to be answered, and this is something that can be simplified."
"The spinning up in the solution can be much faster...The product should have a faster scalability option."
"AWS Lambda has some size limitations in the code line, you can't do a couple of functions to do the job."
"Its performance can be improved. There should also be more dynamic security permissions."
"They should work on the solution's stability and pricing."
"I would like to see some better integration with other providers, like Cohesity, Druva, and others. I also think the Lambda interface could be better."
"Lambda has limitations on the amount of memory you can use and is not a good solution for long running processes."
"I would like the layers to have a bigger volume. I would like to be able to add more. I don't want to be limited by the layer."
"Lambda can only be used in one account; there's no possibility to utilize it in another account."
"The price in general could always be better."
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is ranked 2nd in Compute Service with 39 reviews while AWS Lambda is ranked 1st in Compute Service with 70 reviews. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is rated 8.8, while AWS Lambda is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling writes "Well-documented setup process and highly stable solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Lambda writes "An easily scalable solution with a variety of use cases and valuable event-based triggers". Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most compared with AWS Fargate, AWS Batch, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Amazon Elastic Inference, whereas AWS Lambda is most compared with AWS Batch, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, AWS Fargate and Google Cloud Dataflow. See our AWS Lambda vs. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling report.
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