Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Room for Improvement

Poulav Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Lead at Coach Foundation

There is room for improvement in the scalability.

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ShahRushabh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Infinite Computer Solutions

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can provide more discounts when using the machines the solution uses.

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

The spinning up in the solution can be much faster. There are other solutions you can depend on if you cannot even wait for seconds for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to spin up.

The solution should be available with certain Microsoft products like an inbuilt MS Word or Office in EC2 since there are use cases where an application needs to access MS Excel to prepare or download a report.

The product should have a faster scalability option.

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

The launch configuration feature doesn't work properly. It needs to improve the load configuration feature along with launch templates. The tool needs to tag feature as well. 

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Vijay Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - SAP at Capgemini

We have found that the sizing in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is far off. For example, we will see some at one terabyte and the other one is two terabytes. There is nothing between one and two terabytes. Sometimes it's a struggle if I need one and a half, I still am supposed to pay for two. There are five terabytes, six terabytes, and 12 terabytes, and if I need something at eight or nine, I'm still paying 30 to 40 percent more by taking the one which is 12 terabytes. Microsoft Azure does similar sizes but the gap can be more, such as six terabytes, and the next one is 12 terabytes.

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

The solution's pricing is expensive. You pay based on how much you use it, like paying for the time or hours you use the service. There's no need to buy hardware separately.

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Ashish  Paikrao - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Pathlock

The tool must provide proper guidelines to troubleshoot connectivity issues. It must also improve AMI creation.

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MohamedElazzouzi - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager de production SI technique et corporate at inwi

The product should improve vertical scaling features. It should support scaling inside the nodes. It requires the capacity to scale microservices in other nodes.

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MordechaiKeidar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software architect at Elbit Systems Ltd

Automation is very hard.

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

The existing instance should not be terminated during scale in and scale out. The product does not explain why a particular instance is terminated. There is no option to check the log either.

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Joyee Sen - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Service Delivery Manager at SoftwareONE

I'd like to see more integration with products like Ansible and other platforms. 

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Askar Alikhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Macquarie Group

There is room for improvement in the pricing model. 

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

If your EC2 instance doesn't boot up, you're in the dark about what's happening. It would be amazing if you could get a view of the console to see the status. There's something called the AWS Console, which is a web portal. I would like to see a virtual screen of an instance that hasn't started properly, so I can see where it crashed. 

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Sekhar Prudhivi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at HighRadius

We would like to see improvement in the UI for this solution, so that it is more user-friendly.

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

As we are transitioning to managing containerized applications, the solution could improve by adding more managed container services as a feature in the solution.

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

What could be improved in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is its fees. We are looking to have some discounts on billing.

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

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling’s filtering features need improvement. The support to manage the processes could be better. Whenever the product stops working, we have to change the settings and require to find the root cause of the issues. These instance logs should be managed by AWS itself.

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DA
Technical Lead - Network Deployment Engineer at Clouflare

The product's great, but the pricing could be improved.

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Tony Ayabam - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Infohob

There should be an AWS instance in South Africa, where the latency would be even lower. It might happen soon since AWS has recently opened more data centres in Nigeria. AWS may extend its reach to South Africa, and offer hosted CLI servers there. Most of the problems with AWS are not to do with the solution itself but with configuration. It is something on design, more or less.

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

I would like to see a feature included that has the capability to clone when an instance is being terminated.

We have a few instances with the internal firewall. If for example, I am going to run Linux, and the firewall is open, sometimes it becomes difficult to debug the issue. Also, when you connect from another device, and if the internal IP address table is not deleted, the firewall will be enabled there. 

There is no clear understanding of where the issue is. If you connect externally, you have to install SFTP.

I would like debugging capabilities included.

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

It should work for the cloud, cloud monitoring features, and DevOps processes. It should automatically enable features for downscaling and upscaling.

Apart from this, it also needs to increase its performance both speed-wise and cost-wise.

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RodrigoGalhardo - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Kultua

The product's technical support needs to be better. 

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

The primary area for improvement is the pricing model. 

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Eduar Moran - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Systems Engineer at Fortinet

The documentation for this solution could be improved. For example, sometimes it's difficult to find documentation for integration with applications. 

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

We do have some issues sometimes when something is not configured in the correct way. However, users can avoid this type of trouble by being knowledgeable about the product.

The price could always be a bit better. 

On the ECs, the T2 microservice is the lowest tier. That particular tier could be a little better than what they're offering currently. You cannot do anything at all on that T2 micro. It's a useless tier to have introduced, as you can't do anything at all. You would be able to log in and log off and do some simple features which are already available on that operating system. Yet you cannot install anything. You cannot do anything at all. 

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Harsha_Vardhan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer

The solution's stability and scalability need improvement.

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

The pricing could be reduced. 

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CR
Technical Learning HR Manager at Mphasis

There should be fewer inputs required that include mandatory details for configuration. It will help someone with less technical knowledge easily set up the system.

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

It should be more stable, more secure, and have better pricing.

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

The big issue for us is the cost of using the solution. 

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Sayyed Aadil - PeerSpot reviewer
Hadoop Admin at Tata Consultancy

I would like to see the security portal improved in the future.

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AnkurGupta7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at Evon Technologies Pvt

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling could improve by adding better integration features with the other services. Additionally, if the alarms could be triggered from other services this would be beneficial.

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Sekhar Prudhivi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at HighRadius

Scalability can be improved. 

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MN
Director at TraCoGo Inc

Ask set of questions like expected number of users, redundancy, up time per day and etc when creating a new instance. This would help the user to choose the right EC2 configurations.

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VP
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The technical support needs to be improved.

From a usage perspective, it runs well, although there may be a use case where it will break that I have not yet come across.

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

The solution could improve by having more automation. Nowadays there is a vast variety of automation. Additionally, infrastructure monitoring could improve.

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