We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling 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."The most valuable feature is autoscaling."
"The ability to bring up servers and then do the computation and deposit means we don't have to maintain a data center. Everything is virtual and the security is also taken care of. It helps us to achieve compliance. Being a small startup with the security features that AWS provides helps us with compliance."
"The greatest benefit of Amazon EC2 is its versatility, including the diverse range of servers available and the ability to connect to various resources."
"The setup is straightforward and it takes around an hour."
"The product is easy to set up."
"We find it easy to scale."
"The best features of Amazon EC2 are its high performance and security."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"We appreciate that this solution allows us to run all of our severs through it, meaning that our workloads are mainly on the EC2 instance only."
"The Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling features are simple to use."
"The solution removes the need for hardware. We can easily create servers or machines. Just by clicking or specifying our requirements, like memory size or disk space, it's set up for us. The tool eliminates the need for hardware. We can choose what we need and pay as we use it. It is flexible and can integrate with any product."
"We use the solution to increase CPU and memory size."
"The documentation is good."
"Having a load balancer in between is very helpful when you have huge traffic."
"Service for launching or terminating Amazon EC2 instances, with good scalability and stability."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the seamless resizing of web connection."
"Regarding availability, a noticeable improvement would be the possibility of more load balancing configurations and the deployment of more datacenters, mainly in Latin America."
"They have to provide clarity on pricing. It's not transparent."
"Current inability to change the resource service levels."
"The only issue with EC2 is that it makes it difficult to install an LLS certificate on your WordPress website that you have deployed inside that virtual machine. That becomes complicated."
"EC2 could be improved with easier migration."
"The scalability could improve."
"The availability and response time of the free technical support can be improved."
"Technical itself could be a bit more helpful, especially when it comes to integration assistance. When we talk to the technical team, often it's some issue with integration and they'll tell us to talk to the other company. Often, the other company will look at everything and not see an issue from their end and then we are at an impasse."
"The pricing could be reduced."
"Could integrate more with other platforms."
"I would like to see a feature included that has the capability to clone when an instance is being terminated."
"The product should improve vertical scaling features."
"The price could always be a bit better."
"The solution's configuration process could be better."
"As we are transitioning to managing containerized applications, the solution could improve by adding more managed container services as a feature in the solution."
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can provide more discounts when using the machines the solution uses."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 4th in Compute Service with 56 reviews while Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is ranked 2nd in Compute Service with 37 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling writes "Well-documented setup process and highly stable solution". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, Apache NiFi and AWS Batch, whereas Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most compared with AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Amazon Elastic Inference and Oracle Compute Cloud Service. See our Amazon EC2 vs. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling report.
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