# AWS Auto Scaling Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Auto Scaling Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/auto-scaling) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 256 ## About AWS Auto Scaling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to dynamically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down automatically according to conditions you define. You can use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for fleet management of EC2 instances to help maintain the health and availability of your fleet and ensure that you are running your desired number of Amazon EC2 instances. You can also use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for dynamic scaling of EC2 instances in order to automatically increase the number of Amazon EC2 instances during demand spikes to maintain performance and decrease capacity during lulls to reduce costs. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is well suited both to applications that have stable demand patterns or that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage. ## AWS Auto Scaling Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users commend **automated resource management** in AWS Auto Scaling, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency during traffic fluctuations. (4 reviews) - Users value the **seamless scalability** of AWS Auto Scaling, effectively managing resources to enhance performance and reduce costs. (4 reviews) - Users find AWS Auto Scaling to be highly **cost-effective** , efficiently managing resources during varying traffic demands. (3 reviews) - Users highlight the **unified management interface** of AWS Auto Scaling, simplifying resource configuration across multiple services. (2 reviews) - Users benefit from the **automatic resource adjustment** of AWS Auto Scaling, ensuring optimal performance during traffic fluctuations. (2 reviews) - User Interface (2 reviews) - Users value the **unified management interface** of AWS Auto Scaling, streamlining resource management across multiple AWS services. (1 reviews) - Cloud Networking (1 reviews) - Compute Management (1 reviews) - Cost Management (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face **scaling issues** due to complex configurations and startup delays that impact performance and efficiency. (4 reviews) - Users find the **complex configuration** of AWS Auto Scaling daunting, requiring extensive knowledge of interconnected components. (2 reviews) - Users find the **difficulty in setup** of AWS Auto Scaling challenging, especially for newcomers to cloud technology. (2 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with AWS Auto Scaling, requiring manual intervention for issues like high CPU usage. (2 reviews) - Users find the **configuration complexity** of AWS Auto Scaling overwhelming, needing significant expertise to optimize settings effectively. (1 reviews) - The **complex setup** of AWS Auto Scaling can be intimidating for new users, requiring trial and error to navigate. (1 reviews) - Expensive (1 reviews) - Inadequate Monitoring (1 reviews) - Users find the **lack of expertise** necessary for initial setup and optimization challenging, especially for newcomers to AWS. (1 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (1 reviews) ## AWS Auto Scaling Reviews ### 1. Autoscaling to save money **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** How you can scale to usage to match demand to help reduce costs. Also ensuring avialbilty **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** There is really nothing I dislike about the prod;uct. I did what we wanted it to do and it is relatively easy to use. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost Optimization and high availability ### 2. Scale without much hassle **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Its simple, it works and its simple to make it work right away. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Some things are not clear like which instance will kill first when downscaling **Recommendations to others considering AWS Auto Scaling:** Go for it, its easy to use and does it's job. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling fast and in a reliable way. ### 3. Auto scaling to be integrated with third party tool metrics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Scaling is hosrizontally and vertically and options you have provided is great **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** nothing should be for third party tools. scaling metrics should increased **Recommendations to others considering AWS Auto Scaling:** Should integrate with thirdparty tools **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** I take care of providing solutions to customers based their requirments mostly into oracle workload migrations ### 4. ASG is a fantastic feature **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** One of the best thing I liked is ASG helped reduce midnight support calls. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Its a great product and evolving just like any other AWS service. Nothing to dislike **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduce the cost by enabling us to run increased instances only during high demand ### 5. Auto Scaling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** I like that there is now a service for managing all auto scaling activities. This was not the case when I started using AWS **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Not sure if I dislike anything per se. Would be nice with more AI driven scaling policies. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling applications. ### 6. High Availability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Awesome to improove your app is always running, no matter how many requests you are getting. If configured correctly, you can just sit back and watch the load com in. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Sometimes it is dificult to tweak the parameters to perfection. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** High Avalibity ### 7. AUto Scaling survey **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Ease of use and ability to provision/deprovbision resources on demand, rather than reviewing reports and trending. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Not much, its simple to set up, havent really had any problems. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just trying to estimate demand, this helps us to take the guesswork out of it. ### 8. You need to understand autoscaling in detail to not get caught off guard **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Hands off scaling and high availability is a plus **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Configuring autoscaling policies is a fine art and prone to unexpected behaviiour **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly high availability. We set a fix min and max and if one instance is unhealthy the ASG will auto heal. ### 9. Easy to setup and automate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Ease of use, set it and forget it. Easy to train helpdesk team to support future CSP clients. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** NA- easy to use, serves a high demand purpose **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating response to user base needs for clients supporting emergency response departments with inconsistence busy-periods ### 10. It does the work for you **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** You don't have to mnanage any of the launching or terminating - it does it for you **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Can be a little tough to get the scaling policies done correctly **Recommendations to others considering AWS Auto Scaling:** It helps you get into production **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** save money and handle demand ### 11. Game changer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Efficient use of resources, easy to make code updates, scaling policy options **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Nothing. Great and fantastic product all around. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily influx of large amounts of traffic. Autoscaling has alllowed us to use only the servers required to support the traffic. ### 12. Works great every time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Works great every time -- have nevery had any issues with it in any way whatsoever **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Nothing -- it works great every time -- we don't really need to use it often but it's just set-and-forget **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping costs down ### 13. Scales well and easy to use. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Very easy to scale based on cpu usage and other metrics that is supported natively **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** difficult to scale based on other metrics that is not natively supported **Recommendations to others considering AWS Auto Scaling:** Use the appropriate threshold **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scale out/in based on server load ### 14. Seemlessly scale up and down based on user load **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Auto scaling allow us to respond to periods of high user requests **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Not as easy to review and tune metrics and settings **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** our api is set up to auto scale in case of high CPU use ### 15. Useful for workload management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** I like that I can set boundaries for scaling and enable infrastructure to react to my workload demands. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Learning and implementing stateless infrastructure is not entirely intuitive. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application responsiveness, reduced effort for performance and tuning. ### 16. performqce **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** allowing to answer performance request w/o delay and in consequence to be close to operqtions **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** the fqct thqt thsi requires specific adaptations and resources pre bookinmg **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** no delqy to deliver cqpqcity to cope with the demand ### 17. Great experience when usable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sporting Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Always had great performance with this product **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** we cannot use with some products like Oracle fusion infrastructrure **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using this on any domain that's scalable but we cannot use with some products like Oracle fusion infrastructrure ### 18. experiences in autoscaling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Railroad Manufacture | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** predictability and continuing evolution in metrics that can be used and ways to use them. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Navigating through the aws console when finding resources related to the autoscaling. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling on both predicted and dynamic demand. ### 19. Keeping pace with realtime activities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Creating scaling that keeps pace with my services such that alll of our users can be served **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Inability to change some of the settings in real time in the console **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Capacity and scaling ### 20. Amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Aws Autoscaling has made it simple for me to scale my instances without having to worry about and issues **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Updating a launch config for autoscale could be improved **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling and removing manual intervention ### 21. Experience using Auto scaling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** The ease of use and and the kind of performance and scalbility is amazing. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** It's hard to manage sometimes when we have number of autoscaling groups **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** The load on our web application ### 22. auto scaling simplicity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Once set up the automation runs flawlessly and can be forgotten about **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** cannot control on premise systems and means we have to have multiple solutions to do so **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** time of day loading ### 23. Auto Scaller-Awesome **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Setting up is so simple and well integrated with cloudformation for iac **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** does not provide time range toscale down to 0, to save cost in test environments **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** scale and cost optimisations ### 24. No downtime! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** scalability, no downtime, keeping the business during maintenancve times **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** the time it takes to scale up/down can be a bit slow at times **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** keeping everything runing during periods of high traffic ### 25. Auto scaling for a public web site **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sim C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** The integration with logging and monitoring capability for easy scaling out and scaling in based on the system utilization and healthiness. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** the way to configure auto-scaling for the running servers. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Auto Scaling:** it is a cheap and simple way to enhance availability and performance of workloads on AWS **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** public web with high resiliency and performance requirements ### 26. Saved our sign in **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Auto scaling has saved our Sign In experience for our customers during peak ours of the holidays **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Other teams had the Auto Scale remove all instences **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** On demand resources ### 27. Simile and effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Ability to scale up. Ability to scale down. Ability to not scale **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Ability to scale up. Ability to scale down. Ability to not scale **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Autoscaling automates increased and decreased loads ### 28. Awesome! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Easy to use and always scalable. It helped us revolutionize our business. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** As of this moment, I cannot recall a specific dislike. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to move fast with deployments ### 29. auto scaling helps our company to save some money **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** the scalability in autoscaling and able to save cost **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** nothing..it depends on the avaliability of the compute resource **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** inclease and decrease in volume depending on application need to save cost. ### 30. Auto scale EMR based on workload **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** This feature is very cost effective when we use transient EMR clusters **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** We are facing issues in some cases to achieve autoscaling enabled **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost optimization on transient EMR clusters ### 31. Great Idea, Great Product That Needs Some Finer Tunning **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Takes away alot of the manual aspects traditionally seen **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** THere are some small misses in the AI/ML play **Recommendations to others considering AWS Auto Scaling:** Make sure it is the right fit **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** growth and usage ### 32. Auto scaling functionality with AWS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** The easy and fast setup to use the service. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Nothing I can spontanious think of right now. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lowering the costs for services when they are not in use. ### 33. get robust and save money **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** the ability to now select both spot and reservred in auto scaling gets you the best of both worlds **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** nothing really. it has worked very well. thank you **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** scalability ### 34. Autoscaling is the 2way of the future **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Takes the time and puts it towards something else that matters. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Nothing really. I think everything about it is pretty on point. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Autoscaling for peak hours and holidays ### 35. Elastic Compute made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Options to manage seasonal/ bursty loadsand reduce operational costs **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** No concerns to report at this point in time **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to reduce downtime and improve availability/reliability of flagship products ### 36. Best Friend #1 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** The ability to provision EC2s automatically. **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** That some techs will lose their jobs... lol **Recommendations to others considering AWS Auto Scaling:** Use it, it will make your life easier. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** rolling out new code and patches ### 37. Perfect way to size to business needs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Adoption to changing business needs without human intervention **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** More proactive would be nice, or quicker reactive setup **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bursts in front end traffic on web facing servers ### 38. Never slow down without breaking budget **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Auto Scaling allowed us to get the performance without spending a fortune **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Harder to setup. Initially it was quite a steep learning curve. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalability ### 39. auto-scale review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** ability to scale,based on load and demand **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** ability to have mix of spot and on-demand along with diff instance types **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** flexibility based on scale ### 40. Auto scaling helps in maintianing service availability, perfromance and manage costs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Service Availability and Costs Optimization **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Cant think of anything.at this moment. Will update in future. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** High Availability most of the times for key applications ### 41. Up and up! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** The pre-configuration triggers are insane **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Not being able to attach them to already created instances **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick response to production enviroment ### 42. neeed elb support **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** cooldown is great feature. but setting up timing is very nice **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** manual scale needs some better stuff. looks nice. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** load distribution and management ### 43. Auto Scaling Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Ability to trigger based on certain conditions to scale up **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Lack of granular controls to scale things down **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Need to increase capacity ### 44. as review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** add / remove capacity without manual interaction **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** solution works as expected, nothing that i dislike **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** meeting tihe demand of web services ### 45. Costbsaving without performance compromises **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Scale at large when needed and customers are happy **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** None. Works without any issues. No complaints. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Support higher volume of requests ### 46. Autoscaling review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Ability to manage my cost by provisioning the right size **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Nothing much like everything about autoscaling **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling our webservices ### 47. Auto Scaling **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Quick scaling of services when needed to support workloads **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** Inability to define which scanling groups to use **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling ### 48. autoscaling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** AWS autoscaling is very easy to use. Nice documentation **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** granularity of triggers. aws console should show trif=ggers **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** scalability ### 49. Autoscaling is core **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Different autoscaling options and customizable scaling **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** No automatic spot instance support with customziable pricing. **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Programmatic horizontal scaling ### 50. Autoscaling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Auto Scaling?** Easily create highly availablle workloads **What do you dislike about AWS Auto Scaling?** maintaining ami's **What problems is AWS Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?** high availablity and workload distribution of performance ## AWS Auto Scaling Discussions - [What is the best platform where we can have deep knowledge of this tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-platform-where-we-can-have-deep-knowledge-of-this-tool) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What are the two main components of AWS Auto Scaling?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/aws-auto-scaling-what-are-the-two-main-components-of-aws-auto-scaling) - 1 comment - [Which AWS services may be scaled using AWS Auto Scaling?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-aws-services-may-be-scaled-using-aws-auto-scaling) - 1 comment - [View AWS Auto Scaling pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-auto-scaling/reviews?page=5&qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-18+14%3A53%3A30+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f2106f5e-5112-49c9-af9b-9200ac054ca9&secure%5Btoken%5D=6ea7618e97f91bac1c3afdde5fde84b2a218b9ff2893c826e072755a6342e403&format=llm_user) ## AWS Auto Scaling Integrations - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/reviews) - [Amazon EC2](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews) - [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-amazon-eks/reviews) - [Amazon Lightsail](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-lightsail/reviews) - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - [AWS X-Ray](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-x-ray/reviews) - [Databricks](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) ## AWS Auto Scaling Features **Automated resource scaling** - Automatic resource discovery - Smart scaling **Scaling strategies** - Pre-defined optimization strategies - Predictive scaling **Visualization** - Unified scaling - Dashboard ## Top AWS Auto Scaling Alternatives - [Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (875 reviews) - [Cast AI](https://www.g2.com/products/cast-ai/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (188 reviews) - [ScaleOps](https://www.g2.com/products/scaleops-cloud-native-optimization-scaleops/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (95 reviews)