We compared AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Users praised AWS Fargate for its seamless scalability, ease of use, and efficient resource management. Conversely, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling received positive feedback for its ability to dynamically adjust resources based on demand and its scalability. Fargate was valued for abstracting away infrastructure, while EC2 Auto Scaling was appreciated for its optimal performance and cost efficiency. The reliability, efficiency, and helpfulness of customer service were highlighted for both products. Suggestions for improvement included enhancing container orchestration capabilities for Fargate and improving instance type selection and customization for EC2 Auto Scaling.
Features: AWS Fargate's valuable features include seamless scalability, ease of use, efficient resource management, abstraction of underlying infrastructure, no server maintenance, high security and flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. In contrast, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling focuses on dynamic resource adjustments based on demand, optimal performance and cost efficiency, scalability, flexibility, seamless integration with other AWS services, and easy setup and configuration.
Pricing and ROI: Users have praised AWS Fargate for its affordability and flexibility in pricing plans, ease of setup, and straightforward licensing process. On the other hand, users have found Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling's pricing reasonable and competitive, with a low setup cost. Licensing is also considered user-friendly, ensuring a smooth experience., Based on user feedback, AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling both offer positive ROI. Fargate excels in efficiency, scalability, and time-saving, while Auto Scaling impresses with increased cost-effectiveness and resource allocation flexibility.
Room for Improvement: AWS Fargate could improve container orchestration capabilities, visibility and monitoring tools, resource allocation and scaling, networking limitations, and customer support. On the other hand, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling could enhance instance selection, documentation, user interface, integration, error reporting, and resource control.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews indicate that the deployment, setup, or implementation duration for AWS Fargate can vary significantly, with some users reporting spending three months on deployment and an additional week on setup. In contrast, for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, one user mentioned a three-month deployment and a one-week setup, while another user completed both in just one week. These reviews suggest that AWS Fargate may have a longer and more variable duration for deployment and setup compared to Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling., AWS Fargate's customer service has been positively reviewed, with users highlighting the promptness, efficiency, knowledge, and expertise of the support team. Similarly, users of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling have praised the fast, reliable, and helpful assistance provided by the support team.
The summary above is based on 36 interviews we conducted recently with AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling has good integration."
"The documentation is good."
"The product's most valuable features are high availability and persistence."
"The monitoring tool is helpful."
"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 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling features are simple to use."
"It has the best auto-scaling features."
"Can handle traffic spikes so the system doesn't overload."
"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ease of use."
"We appreciate the simple use of containers within this solution, it makes managing the containers quick and easy."
"I like their containerization service. You can use Docker or something similar and deploy quickly without the know-how related to, for example, Kubernetes. If you use AKS or Kubernetes, then you have to have the know-how. But for Fargate, you don't need to have the know-how there. You just deploy the container or the image, and then you have the container, and you can use it as AWS takes care of the rest. This makes it easier for those getting started or if you don't have a strong DevOps team inside your organization."
"AWS Fargate has many valuable services. It does the job with minimal trouble. It's very observable. You can see what's going on and you have logs. You have everything. You can troubleshoot it. It's affordable and it's flexible."
"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."
"Its stability and scalability need improvement."
"Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can provide more discounts when using the machines the solution uses."
"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."
"It should work for the cloud, cloud monitoring features, and DevOps processes. It should automatically enable features for downscaling and upscaling."
"I would like to see the security portal improved in the future."
"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."
"The technical support needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the scalability."
"We would like to see some improvement in the process documents that are provided with this product, particularly for auto-scaling and other configuration tools that are a bit complicated."
"I would like to see the older dashboard instead of the newer version. I don't like the new dashboard."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."
"AWS Fargate could improve the privileged mode containers. We had some problems and they were not able to run."
"I heard from my team that it's not easy to predict the cost. That is the only issue we have with AWS Fargate, but I think that's acceptable. AWS Fargate isn't user-friendly. Anything related to Software as a Service or microservice architecture is not easy to implement. You're required to have DevOps from your side to implement the solution. AWS Fargate is just a temporary solution for us. When we grow to a certain level, we may use AKS for better control."
"The main area for improvement is the cost, which could be lowered to be more competitive with other major cloud providers."
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is ranked 2nd in Compute Service with 37 reviews while AWS Fargate is ranked 6th in Compute Service with 6 reviews. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is rated 8.8, while AWS Fargate is rated 8.6. 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 AWS Fargate writes "Efficiently auto-scales and good performance". Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most compared with AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Amazon Elastic Inference, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Apache NiFi, whereas AWS Fargate is most compared with Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Apache Spark. See our AWS Fargate vs. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling report.
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