We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Apache NiFi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling operates at a different level, working in parallel to efficiently manage workload distribution. Primarily, it focuses on orchestration rather than directly managing EC2 instances for deployment and configuration. It uses automated processes to deploy and manage ports, leveraging Application Load Balancers to effectively handle data communication and management."
"The product's most valuable features are high availability and persistence."
"Applications deployed on EC2 instances can easily integrate with other AWS services. For example, you can connect your EC2 Auto Scaling group to a tool like CloudWatch for health checks and anomaly detection."
"I like the fact that you don't need to pay for it when you aren't using it, especially in a disaster recovery scenario. The pricing is transparent, so you know what you're going to pay for it."
"The product is flexible."
"What we have found most valuable are the purchasing of usage at the time and small storage."
"Having a load balancer in between is very helpful when you have huge traffic."
"The solution is scalable."
"Apache NiFi is user-friendly. Its most valuable features for handling large volumes of data include its multitude of integrated endpoints and clients and the ability to create cron jobs to run tasks at regular intervals."
"Visually, this is a good product."
"The most valuable features of this solution are ease of use and implementation."
"The user interface is good and makes it easy to design very popular workflows."
"The most valuable feature has been the range of clients and the range of connectors that we could use."
"We can integrate the tool with other applications easily."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It's an automated flow, where you can build a flow from source to destination, then do the transformation in between."
"The solution could improve by having more automation. Nowadays there is a vast variety of automation. Additionally, infrastructure monitoring could improve."
"The spinning up in the solution can be much faster...The product should have a faster scalability option."
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers various benefits but lacks certain features for fine-grained customization compared to other cloud providers like GCP. Users are constrained by predefined instance families in EC2 when selecting instance types for scaling. Unlike GCP, where users can independently scale resources such as memory or CPU, EC2 doesn't offer this flexibility."
"Automation is very hard."
"The product does not explain why a particular instance is terminated."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The documentation for this solution could be improved. For example, it is difficult to find documentation for integration with applications."
"The product should improve vertical scaling features."
"There is room for improvement in integration with SSO. For example, NiFi does not have any integration with SSO. And if I want to give some kind of rollback access control across the organization. That is not possible."
"There should be a better way to integrate a development environment with local tools."
"There are some claims that NiFi is cloud-native but we have tested it, and it's not."
"The overall stability of this solution could be improved. In a future release, we would like to have access to more features that could be used in a parallel way. This would provide more freedom with processing."
"The tool should incorporate more tutorials for advanced use cases. It has tutorials for simple use cases."
"More features must be added to the product."
"I think the UI interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"We run many jobs, and there are already large tables. When we do not control NiFi on time, all reports fail for the day. So it's pretty slow to control, and it has to be improved."
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is ranked 2nd in Compute Service with 39 reviews while Apache NiFi is ranked 8th in Compute Service with 11 reviews. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is rated 8.8, while Apache NiFi is rated 7.8. 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 Apache NiFi writes "Allows the creation and use of custom functions to achieve desired functionality but limitation in handling monthly transactions due to a lack of partitioning for dates". Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most compared with AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Amazon Elastic Inference, whereas Apache NiFi is most compared with Google Cloud Dataflow, AWS Lambda, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics and Apache Storm. See our Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs. Apache NiFi report.
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