Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Primary Use Case

Poulav Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Lead at Coach Foundation

We have several instances and applications that we run using WordPress. For that, I needed an easy, secure, and faster solution with different options to back up the website and data. Amazon EC2 offers options to back up data using the S3 version control system, which worked really well for us. Moreover, it's cost-effective.

Having a load balancer in between is very helpful when you have huge traffic. It has been beneficial for handling around 80,000 to 200,000 visitors a month on our blog.

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ShahRushabh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Infinite Computer Solutions

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is used to divide the heavy traffic of our solutions and process the request properly.

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Mridu Boruah - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud manager at Baxter International Inc.

In my company, we use Auto Scaling for EC2 instances. I use Auto Scaling with a load balancer when there is very high internet traffic and we need to serve more users. The load balancer will just scale up to serve more users.

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Kiran Rajanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect and Cloud Security Consultant at Cgi Deutschland KG

The tool serves several purposes. It helps to pass instances automatically. We can perform maintenance on instances and application upgrades.

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Vijay Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - SAP at Capgemini

We use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for SAP workloads to the cloud.

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Deepak  Nagar - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Strategic Alliances at Softcell Technologies Limited

We use the product as a computing machine. By clicking on the portal, we can create different machines with specific features, like memory size.

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Ashish  Paikrao - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Pathlock

We have EC2-based architectures. We deploy our applications on EC2. We also use Amazon RDS.

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MordechaiKeidar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software architect at Elbit Systems Ltd

I use the solution for development, production, and testing.

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Vikram Dhane - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Cloud Network and Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I use the product for its availability and scalability features.

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Joyee Sen - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Service Delivery Manager at SoftwareONE

Our use case is for when there's a need for additional processing capacity. Broadly speaking, the platform has inbuilt intelligence that detects a high workload, and then automatically scales out to accommodate the increased demand for capacity. We have production systems that run 24/7.

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Askar Alikhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Macquarie Group

It is used to run applications.

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Matt Hardy - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager/Deployment Manager at Hivedome Consultancy Services

We use EC2 as a disaster-recovery target and also to host a web server. We've got a demo account that uses AT&T Azure managed services where customers can log into our software. 

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Sekhar Prudhivi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at HighRadius

We use this solution to scale up the number of VM's that are running during times of heavy traffic or high workload. It covers 5,000 servers over 10 different environments for us.

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CK
DevOps Lead at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is a function inside Amazon EC2.

We are using it to scale the capacity of our internet services. It automatically increases capacity when usage surpasses certain thresholds to prevent any issues with capacity.

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Naresh Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at OORWIN LABS INC

We use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for our EC2 instances. To run our application platform, we are using EC2 instances. EC2 is nothing but one machine, e.g. it's a remote machine. We are satisfied with the service, and we are especially good at using the service. We are taking clean servers, e.g. our machines run AWS, and we manage everything ourselves.

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VinayKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Engineer at Seven Lakes Enterprises, Inc.

We use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for production nodes to manage varying loads during peak business hours. It provides the flexibility of auto-scaling infrastructure when there is high traffic.

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Technical Lead - Network Deployment Engineer at Clouflare

I use the solution in my personal time. I like to play with it and learn a bit of software.

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Tony Ayabam - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Infohob

We use the solution for two instances for the frontend and backend, then I use CI/CD pipelines to integrate both, and finally, I use Jenkins.

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AY
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps maintain application availability and allows you to add or remove EC2 instances.

More than one instance can run at one time. You can start and stop instances at any time.

It can run with any application. Linux, as an example, can be installed with it.

Once the EC2 has been created, you can easily log into it.

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Chandran  J - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Executive -Devops at CIAR Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

We use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling in our company for regulating and scaling. We also use it on architectural projects.

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RodrigoGalhardo - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Kultua

We use the tool to deploy NLP modules. 

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Vamsi Mohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at a non-profit with 11-50 employees

We use EC2 to host applications.

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Eduar Moran - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Systems Engineer at Fortinet

EC2 and Auto Scaling are solutions to deploy computer VMs. When you use Auto Scaling, you have many advantages because the platform is elastic. When your platform requires high performance, Auto Scaling can provide this and avoid replication.

For clients, I deployed many Auto Scaling solutions for different applications, and currently I'm using Auto Scaling to deploy FortiGate. FortiGate is a next-generation firewall that provides security for AWS in general.

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Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation

The client had a requirement to make sure there was a specific amount of memory utilization for each of the EC2 instances. When it reached its maximum or a threshold limit. The client wanted the Auto Scaling to scale up more easily to instances onto the system, with all the relevant security configurations, and everything available. That was his business problem. He didn't want to pay a lot at once, however, he didn't want to leave the system in a state that should not be in a position to be unable to handle jobs due to heavy usage or if there is a demand. The client wanted to make sure the demand was met and he wanted to make sure the service that he was obtaining from AWS was not idle.

Therefore, we provided the Auto Scaling EC2s. While we designed the solution, we identified what could be the minimum utilization based on the on-prem solution that they had. It was kind of a migration solution. The client had an on-prem environment and wanted to go into AWS in a cost-effective way. To ensure cost-effectiveness, we proposed Auto Scaling, so that if there was a heavy demand for memory, Auto Scaling could start scaling up based on the demand. And then, when the demand is reduced, it would automatically scale down and run on a specific minimum usage so that the cost will be at the minimum. 

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Harsha_Vardhan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer

We use the solution to launch the instances.

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Cuneyt Gurses - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer at sonne technology

Our company uses the solution to cluster cloud services for our customers who need elastic computing. Our customers currently have thousands of service users. 

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SA
Cloud Engineer/Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution to increase CPU and memory size. 

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Technical Learning HR Manager at Mphasis

We use the solution to autoscale the number of servers per specific business requirements.

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Balram Aggarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President - Oracle Cloud | Head Cloud Practices & CoE at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

We use EC2 for regular usage based on on-demand pricing or cost-saving plans and Reserved Instances, depending on the customer's needs.

If customers want to use an instance for a longer time and maximize usage, we recommend savings plans and Reserved Instances instead of on-demand pricing.

We use Auto Scaling based on the customer's use case. For example, one of my customers utilizes EC2 with custom scaling configurations.

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Moses NYOTA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software and Cloud Engineer at Velocis Technologies LLC

We use this solution to scale up and scale down. You can have 1,000 people connecting to your network or you can have 50,000. The solution scales up to cope with the extra demand.

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Sayyed Aadil - PeerSpot reviewer
Hadoop Admin at Tata Consultancy

Our primary use case is for infographic designing.

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AnkurGupta7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Evon Technologies Pvt

We are using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to horizontally scale.

The solution can be deployed on the cloud, and on-premise, and can be configurated hybrid.

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Sekhar Prudhivi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at HighRadius

I use it for running Tomcat applications to restore the RDS, the database for getting the data. It then generates a UI. 

I am using it only for practicing purposes. I am trying to test the auto-scale feature and see how it works when we increase any workload.

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MN
Director at TraCoGo Inc

We are using this product within our cloud-based development environment.

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SS
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is used if your computers are heavily using resources or heavily loaded, this is going to impact your backend environment. Therefore if your computers need more CPUs or additional RAM associated, then you can use Auto Scaling to take care of it. We then do not face any such structural issues with the VMs where we host the control environment and application.

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