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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps users maintain application availability and allows users to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to definable conditions.N/A

    AWS Fargate

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows the user to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate there is no need to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.

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    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Fargate
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    Fargate Spot per GB
    $0.00138679
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    per GB
    $0.004445
    *per hour
    Fargate Spot per vCPU
    $0.01262932
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    per vCPU
    $0.04048
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Fargate
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—*based on US East rates. Price varies region to region.
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Fargate
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    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Fargate
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and AWS Fargate
    Feature
    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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    Ratings
    AWS Fargate
    8.9
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Fargate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingAWS Fargate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If you need to establish a system right away, in the past it took weeks or months to request a quote from the vendor and receive the equipment. Now, with Amazon EC2 in less than tens of minutes or hours, you can create a test environment and test it without any inconvenience.
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    Amazon AWS
    If you need to deploy Docker containers, Amazon Fargate is a very good fit. It integrates very well with other AWS services like RDS, EFS, and Secrets manager. You can have a very robust application using those services. In case you have many containers to deploy, it is however more expensive
    that if you use other services like ECS or EKS, since they allow you to
    share the same infrastructure to deploy multiple containers.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Dynamic scaling can be configured to respond to a wide variety of metrics and alerts
    • Predictive scaling allows one to get ahead of high traffic events rather than simply reacting to them
    • Health checks are configurable based on the needs of your application and architecture
    Incentivized
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    Amazon AWS
    • scalability
    • ease of use
    • agility to up or downsize
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Sometimes, Auto scaling takes time to spin up your instances if your traffic is so high in short span of time.
    • And, Auto scaling can be more efficient if we have only Load balancer in our architecture.
    • It has some limitations on setting up the Auto scaling infra.
    Incentivized
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    Amazon AWS
    • can't think of any
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Usability is good since we already know how AWS works. For those that are new it might be a little bit confusing at the beginning but they are improving it at a fast pace. Even though AWS keeps changing the user interface constantly, it is still powerful, understandable and easy to use. For technical people, they still offer the CLI.
    Incentivized
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    Amazon AWS
    It's a very practical service to use. If you need to deploy any application with a Database, disk storage, you're pretty much set.
    Everything around that can be taken care of using other AWS services. Like secrets manager, certificate manager, RDS ...
    And the CI/CD part is also very easy to setup, you only need on AWS CLI command to trigger a deployment, and done !
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    The platform works as is. The help and tutorials on the help page can help you to setup the entire platform without problems, and also provides help on a huge variety of problems. Amazon also provides support plans. We have the basic support plan, but Amazon offers three support tiers, and we know that it works perfect.
    Incentivized
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    Amazon AWS
    AWS provides different support tiers. They are usually very reactive and are able to help solve the issues very quickly.
    As for everything, the higher the support tier you get, the better and faster support you get.
    If you're also a part of big company, you probably have solution architects at your disposal to help you with any inqueries.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    On the servers with fixed resources, Microsoft IIS was installed. In terms of storage capacity, the server has a predetermined limit. It's possible to run out of money before the next billing cycle begins. A higher price tag or more resources may be necessary to ensure everything works as expected. Oracle Compute Instance Autoscaling works like AWS once. But AWS EC2 Autoscaling has many more configuration options. AWS EC2 Automatic Scaling eliminates the need to visit the server and assess its performance physically.
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    Amazon AWS
    We found the extra cost saved us frustration and time and ultimately money in the long run
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    Pricing and billing of AWS Fargate is loosely tied to your exisiting AWS billing. You're unlikely to only use Fargate in your AWS subscription, so you get billed for everything alltoghter.
    Fargate is naturally a bit more expensive that usuel docker services, but with careful planning and architecturing, you can have a very manageable cost.
    You can also rely on Saving plans to reduce your bill.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • There is no need to maintain infrastructural equipment.
    • There is no need to switch the electricity off or on in the case of a legitimate power outage.
    • The system frequently had issues when turned on, and labor frequently continued on all night, but by transferring to the cloud, that effort might be spared.
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    Amazon AWS
    • easier to optimize our computer costs
    • transition from server to serverless was easier once we decided to adopt Fargate
    Incentivized
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