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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Pros and Cons: Top Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users find the complex configuration of EC2 Auto Scaling daunting, especially without prior AWS experience. (1 mentions)
Users experience a steep learning curve with EC2 Auto Scaling, making configuration challenging for newcomers to AWS. (1 mentions)
Users struggle with the steep initial learning curve of EC2 Auto Scaling, finding configuration complex and intimidating. (1 mentions)

Top Cons or Disadvantages of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

1. Complex Configuration
Users find the complex configuration of EC2 Auto Scaling daunting, especially without prior AWS experience.
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Luca P.
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Luca P.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.5/5

"Indispensable feature for EC2 management and high traffic requirements"

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

I believe the main point of friction with EC2 Auto Scaling is its steep initial learning curve. While the concept is simple, achieving an optimal and

2. Complexity
Users experience a steep learning curve with EC2 Auto Scaling, making configuration challenging for newcomers to AWS.
See 1 mentions

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Luca P.
LP

Luca P.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.5/5

"Indispensable feature for EC2 management and high traffic requirements"

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

I believe the main point of friction with EC2 Auto Scaling is its steep initial learning curve. While the concept is simple, achieving an optimal and

3. Learning Difficulty
Users struggle with the steep initial learning curve of EC2 Auto Scaling, finding configuration complex and intimidating.
See 1 mentions

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Luca P.
LP

Luca P.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.5/5

"Indispensable feature for EC2 management and high traffic requirements"

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

I believe the main point of friction with EC2 Auto Scaling is its steep initial learning curve. While the concept is simple, achieving an optimal and

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Reviews (30)

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Reviews (30)

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NT
CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon EC2 Auto scaling review"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

1. EC2 instances are super easy to setup.

2. Loved how easily it integrates with Load balancer.

3. Deploying website through EC2 has become a breeze Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

1. There are around 10 types of EC2 instances, so sometimes we become confused which one to you, considering so many options avaible. We usually use T2 Micro Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Security and Investigations
AS
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Simple Scaling with Advanced Features"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

EC2 Auto Scaling makes scaling instances very easy. It is simple to increase the amount of instances you need. It can auto-balance across availability zones automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

I dislike that editing a launch configuration is cumbersome. You have to make a copy of the original, edit, then attach the new launch configuration to the autoscaling group, then manually cycle the instances yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AL
Sr. Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Keeps your instances running and allows for dynamic or manual scaling."
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

The best thing I like is that it starts up a new instance when one dies because of hardware or software failures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

I would like to be able to use it with spot fleets. Just keep a certain amount of compute power running. I would like to know the number of the instance in the fleet. (I.E. 2 of 32 or 5 of 32) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Security and Investigations
US
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Very useful"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

What I like best about EC2 autoscaling is the ease of use and documentation that comes along with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

I have not found something that I dislike about EC2 autoscaling as of yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Hardware
UC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Super easy to setup and manage"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

ease of creating policy and the variety of triggers available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

There is actually not a lot I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting
CM
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"EC2 autoscaling for isolated workloads"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Aws makes it very easy to configure Auto scaling of EC2 instance based on your workload. There are different metricks over which you can define the scaleup and scale down events which auto creates dependent components like cloudwatch alarm, scaling policies etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

There has to be easy way to add for custome logic for scaling events. Currently its is just over system metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon EC2- a boon to cloud technology"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

You can create various instances using EC2. Very helpful for big data mining and also we can learn R abd many languages with the help of instances created and not paying anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Except for setup time and configurations are bit confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"dynamic and predictive scaling"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

fleet management features, demand and predictive scaling, dynamic scaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

nothing I dislike about amazon EC2 auto scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning
UE
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Okay for the most part"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Notes on the kindle version is quite nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Can be confusing and the associated pdf and kindle are different Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"This is one of the killer services why AWS is on top"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

This is years ahead of the competitors. Very stable, reliable and full a top of features what will certainly meet any custom user requirements when scaling instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

The link between auto-scaling groups and launch configurations are not as seamless as I thought. So, it would be nice to make it more robust and flexible to configure them separately to meet custom needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.