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We performed a comparison between Akamai mPulse and AWS Auto Scaling based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great.""The most valuable feature is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage."

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"The product provides self-healing features.""The solution's monitoring effectively monitors our application and CPU utilization.""Our internal business applications are hosted in AWS Auto Scaling.""AWS Auto Scaling is cost-effective and very useful for businesses.""The solution helps optimize the cost of the AWS environment.""The most valuable feature is the ability to select a minimum amount of active servers so that a new server automatically launches if one fails.""It efficiently handles traffic, ensuring we are not running expenses and the infrastructure is strong enough to handle the load.""It is a stable platform."

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Cons
"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there.""In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."

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"The product’s pricing needs improvement.""It could be cheaper.""It has latency issues. It depends on the distribution used, whether it's Amazon Linux, Windows Linux, etc. Occasionally, there are latency issues, which might lead to slower performance.""The solution is not out-of-the-box and you have to study to use it. It should be more easier to use.""The product could add more features for managing instances.""AWS Auto Scaling's documentation could be better.""The tool must include AI features.""The only area of improvement is the speed at which servers are launched. When cleaning up to six servers at a time, it can take up to 15 to 20 minutes to launch new servers."

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  • "The pricing is good. I have not had any customers that have complained about the price."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling's price is high."
  • "The product has moderate pricing."
  • "The product is expensive."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is a cheap solution."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is an expensive solution."
  • "AWS Auto Scaling is a pay-per-use and pay-as-you-use service."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great.
    Top Answer:The end-to-end distributor tracing needs some work because the connectivity from the user to the backend wasn't there. Akamai mPulse was not able to deliver on our requirements regarding observation… more »
    Top Answer:The primary use case of mPulse is for real-time user monitoring. Our use case was to observe the entire platform from the user all the way to the backend system and that's what it did. It's all in the… more »
    Top Answer:The various scaling options available, such as step scaling, are particularly useful.
    Top Answer:While I haven't found any significant need for improvement in AWS Auto Scaling, the setup can be a bit complex in some situations.
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    Also Known As
    SOASTA mPulse
    AWS Auto-Scaling
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    Overview

    Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that gives performance engineers, administrators, and developers the ability to effortlessly visualize website functionality issues and identify ways to improve processes that conventional testing protocols do not find. mPulse gives users usable scenarios to better understand how processes such as user interactions, visual progress, and third-party resources may be disrupting the overall user experience and application delivery.

    mPulse enables users to take a deep dive into the specific performance issues and complete comprehensive error analyses, to thoroughly understand the effect on critical user interactions such as conversions, page views, and more.

    mPulse gathers and delivers data on an organization's website’s performance and metrics on user web browsing experiences. The mPulse feature “Boomerang” is a JavaScript Library that monitors the website page load time. Boomerang has a unique plugin architecture and works with all websites. The Boomerang feature is embedded on each page of an organization's website.

    mPulse works seamlessly with Akamai solution Ion, so the RUM data can be instantly gathered once the Luna Control Center has been activated. Ion instantly attaches Boomerang to the organization’s web properties; there is no need to change the website code.

    Akamai mPulse Benefits

    • Third-party monitoring: mPulse enables users to effortlessly monitor and visualize the effect that third-party vendors, resources, and scripts may have on the organization’s web properties.

    • Real-time intuitions: RUM data is continually being gathered, so users are able to instantly experience changes in user performance during every critical event. Users are able to respond immediately and make corrections or amendments as needed. Additionally, mPulse integrates effectively with other third-party notification solutions, such as Slack, PagerDuty, and webhook API support.

    • Framework integrations: mPulse integrates with many of today’s popular single-page application (SPA) frameworks, such as React.js, Backbone.js, Angular.js, Ember.js, and even some custom frameworks. mPulse has the ability to also be seamlessly integrated in Non-SPA websites.

    • Intuitive feedback: mPulse gathers data and creates workable solutions so users have a better understanding of how objects, images, or even entire pages are affecting user behavior. Users can gather numerous metrics (custom or advanced) to achieve a better, more complete understanding of ways to improve the user experience with the application or website.

    • Custom metrics and timers: With mPulse, users can effortlessly create custom timers to discover important performance sessions unique to the application. The mPulse dashboard allows users to set up trackers for numerous metrics, such as:

      • First image load time
      • Sidebar load time
      • Page load times
      • Third-party resource content load time

    • mPulse Beacon API: This valuable benefit allows users to send custom metrics from mobile and web applications to mPulse. This gives mPulse greater flexibility and usability to frameworks and platforms that can make HTTP calls. Representational State Transfer (REST) interface is included and is able to be used by any web application using any language running on the platform. There is also a Beacon API library for JavaScript. This option is available from the dashboard by creating a new application and an API key.

    AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. The service provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets you build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas. AWS Auto Scaling makes scaling simple with recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them. If you’re already using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to dynamically scale your Amazon EC2 instances, you can now combine it with AWS Auto Scaling to scale additional resources for other AWS services. With AWS Auto Scaling, your applications always have the right resources at the right time.

    Sample Customers
    Nordstrom, Gatwick, DirecTV, MSN, SquareSpace, SAP, Lenovo, Hallmark, myspace, Intuit, Kentucky Derby, Toys "R" Us, Netflix, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Lowe's, Nike, REI, Apple, Sears, Verizon, Wendy's, Huawei
    Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Retailer10%
    Government7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Non Tech Company18%
    Retailer9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Government14%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business14%
    Large Enterprise86%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise48%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise2%
    Large Enterprise79%
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    Akamai mPulse is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while AWS Auto Scaling is ranked 27th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 18 reviews. Akamai mPulse is rated 6.6, while AWS Auto Scaling is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai mPulse writes "Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Auto Scaling writes "The product helps reduce costs and avoids interruptions to the customer experience". Akamai mPulse is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog and AppDynamics, whereas AWS Auto Scaling is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security.

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