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What is Amazon EC2 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.

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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.


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2006
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By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

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Drashti R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Automated heavy traffic load scaling"
It has been very simple to configure and integrate with the EC2 instance. EC2 Auto scaling allows to create auto scaling groups for different EC2 i...
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Praveen S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent performance for application availability, easy to deploy, quick to install."
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling features are simple to use. It seamless resizes to web connection. Integration capabilities are good. It saves your busines...
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3.5 out of 5
"Useful!"
Cost effective, do not have to manage hundreds of servers, able to manage web traffic effectively
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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling features are simple to use. It seamless resizes to web connection. Integration capabilities are good. It saves your business lots ot time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Price could always be a bit better. Would be better if it can support more types of rules. The support to manage the process could be better too. Alos bit of room for improvment in the scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

Took my worries away! Don't have to worry about failure of servers. Saved heaps of my time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

I liked the features they with type of auto scaling i.e Dynamic and predictive. Both work perfectly also the low cost is a plus point, considering the high availability of application in feasible cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

I haven't found anything while using auto scaling of ec2 for which i can say i disliked that in using the product every thing works fine for me. It does the job which i was looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a scenario where the ec2 was getting down and again, whenever there was load on website and we have to check ,restart the machine to make it workable. So we find out EC2 auto scaling we implemented predictive auto scaling on our Ec2, which keep check on utilisation after the certain amount of utilisation it starts auto scaling of the machin which helped us to decrease the down time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

if we using EC2 auto scallling, it will taking with full care like an AI for our EC2 instance . completely maintains a instance limit and `incoming traffic if we using this.simpl its like a iron man jarvis . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

for a very small instance it is no need. because of limited instances we can easily manage by manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

reducing the cost of unwanted usage and the cost-effective. `maintains the traffic control to increase the instance or decrease the instance based on the traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Cost effective, do not have to manage hundreds of servers, able to manage web traffic effectively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Easy to use features - other software that does the same thing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

Create big projects on my home machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arham T.
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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

There are many thing that you can mention as best is autoscaling first thing it scale up and down the resources according to need and condition next it can terminate unhealthy instance and can make another in the replacement and it can monitor the application and send a notification through sms or email about your condition of instance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

The only thing which is not good is that it can create complexities on work by increasing configuration or increasing the resources to sync up your project it can be more challenging to update or deploy project after integrating autoscaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling:

I strongly recommend it to use as it save the resources and its charges its can save unpredictible breakdown and monitor send notification Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem which will be solved is that it saves us from unpredictable break downs and it also saves charges of the company like electricity and scale down some useless resources and also allow the instance to sleep or awake according to load and need it to save us from downtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fasugba B.
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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

With Amazon EC2 Auto scaling, you are able to effectively manage cost while focusing on other things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Amazon EC2 Auto scaling Need some bits of more automations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling:

A trial will convince you. It safes alot of hard labour Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping in the stance of not having to be manually managing resource usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

alram metric is the biggest advantage, where our project has saved almost a million dollars and our client was so happy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

we dont have suggestion or best practice , where every other user can check if he applies how many instance we need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

as our application is huge and its helping us in scaling in peak times like quarter results, where users will bombard our application, to provide feedback to almost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Easy to use, meets the needs. Very flexible and can scale on custom or default cloudwatch metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Scaling up can someitmes be a bit slow to spin up new instances so you have to leave a bit of leeway or there can be short down time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows a service to be maintained by itself without needing a human to be behind the wheel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zobia K.
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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

It is best to use when we need to scale our resources help to manage the health of instances replace unhealthy instances with e2 instance it make and manage the performance perfectly it also scale up ec2 capacity according to the values or condition we define. It help to monitor the application more accurately through autoscaling we can get notifications as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

After implementation of autoscaling of any kind can make updates deployments or changes more complex and challenging. we need extra services to change code or update or synchronize the projects separately it requires much time to setup and increase complexity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling:

It is highly favorable to use autoscaling to increase the performance of your system as well as to monitor is and save your resources charges it is highly preferable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problems solved by ec2 autoscaling is that it help to detect and replace the instances having bad health condition and also scale up the resources used by ec2 according to the conditions and needs It also allows a server to sleep and save resources and its charges when there is low load it can save cost of electricity bill or other resources bill of business which make it highly preferable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sunny G.
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What do you like best about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Low maintenance - write once, fire and forget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Occasionally debugging runaway costs, usually caused by the developers in config. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can focus on the business use case, the infra takes care of itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.