We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Zadara 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 solution incorporates ease of maintenance and reduction in operational overhead and costs. Patching is also easy."
"What we have found most valuable are the purchasing of usage at the time and small storage."
"We use the solution to increase CPU and memory size."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Service for launching or terminating Amazon EC2 instances, with good scalability and stability."
"One of the most important benefits is that a company can optimize resources because Auto Scaling deploys resources when needed. For example, for Black Friday, a company can deploy 100 servers for a couple of days. When Black Friday is over, the company can delete those servers."
"The most useful feature is elasticity. You can scale up or down based on traffic."
"The auto-scaling feature is particularly useful. Additionally, CloudWatch and CloudTrail are also important features for us."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of deployment options."
"Zadara Storage Cloud having 24/7 management saves me support and engineering costs because the storage and computing are managed by a third-party. We are able to focus more attention on the customer, which is truly our core business. Even at 1:00 AM or 2:00 AM at night, someone will answer, which is important."
"A nice feature is the immutable object storage, which can be used in conjunction with Veeam."
"The most valuable feature of Zadara is its ease of use and safety. Overall the solution is a complete package, it has all the features needed."
"The most valuable features of Zadara are its visibility and simplicity to use."
"One of the most useful features is that they provide iSCSI as a service."
"One of the most valuable features is its integration with other cloud solutions. We have a presence within Amazon EC2 and we leverage compute instances in there. Being able to integrate with compute, both locally within Zadara, as well as with other cloud vendors such as Amazon, is very helpful, while also being able to maintain extremely low latency between those connections."
"Being able to scale on demand, and being able to get out of our security operation center, and not having to purchase hardware upfront, has drastically reduced the overhead that was required to maintain our information. We have also gained additional capabilities in terms of speed of replicating that information."
"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."
"We would like to see improvement in the UI for this solution, so that it is more user-friendly."
"The support to manage the processes could be better."
"The price could always be a bit better."
"The product's setup is complex for an intermediate user."
"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."
"The primary area for improvement is the pricing model."
"Its stability and scalability need improvement."
"Cost-wise, because it's a pay-per-use model, it may ultimately end up costing us more in the long run than something we developed ourselves."
"Having iSCSI over the internet using a VPN, the IPSec tunnel is really the only thing that I find missing from this product."
"There are still some storage features that they lack. For example, other vendors implemented the auto-tiering feature a long time ago, while Zadara Storage Cloud is just coming out with this feature today. So, they are a little bit late compared to the market."
"I would like to see them be a little bit more proactive in terms of the patches and updates that are available. I would like to see more disclosure and information around what fixes or what enhancements are available within a patch, and help in coordinating and scheduling that. Right now, it's driven more by the customer in reaching out via a support ticket."
"The management interface is more geared towards end-users rather than a service partner like ourselves, and there are improvements that can be made around that."
"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"The range of support of VMware could be better. It can support Windows, however, it cannot support other operating systems like IBM AIX. This needs to improve."
"Some of the features are a little bit slow to come to market."
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is ranked 2nd in Compute Service with 37 reviews while Zadara is ranked 9th in Compute Service with 9 reviews. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is rated 8.8, while Zadara is rated 8.8. 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 Zadara writes "We're able to scale up or down almost instantly, and changes are handled efficiently by their managed services team ". Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is most compared with AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, Amazon Elastic Inference and Oracle Compute Cloud Service, whereas Zadara is most compared with MinIO, Amazon S3, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Wasabi and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs. Zadara report.
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