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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs. IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

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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

    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AWebSphere Hybrid Edition from IBM is a collection of WebSphere application runtimes and modernization tools that provides support for on-premise and major public cloud deployments, in virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes. The user can choose any WebSphere edition and deploy Liberty and application modernization tools to help move to a cloud-native architecture, modernize existing applications and support an existing WebSphere estate.

    $88.50

    per month

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    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
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    Application Server
    $88.50
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    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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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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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Feature
    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
    -
    Ratings
    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    7.3
    31 Ratings
    8% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings5.426 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings7.831 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.131 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings7.530 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings6.626 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingIBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    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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    IBM
    IBM WebSphere Hybrid edition is well-suited for the development and deployment of large enterprise-level applications such as Electronic Health Records that are used in our organization. IBM WebSphere is appropriate for organizations that require strong security and compliance as it provides a high level of security and compliance features. This works well with organizations that are subject to strict regulatory requirements, such as hospitals.
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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
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    IBM
    • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has done marvelous in building and deploying Java Enterprise applications.
    • It also does well in automating deployment and scaling. This has made it easier for our organization to deploy updates to our applications.
    • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition does well in security by providing features that protect enterprise applications.
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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.
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    IBM
    • Ease of use in terms of deployment, give simple interface to do simple stuff like Tomcat, JBoss or GlassFish.
    • Takes long time to start the server.
    • The Liferay wars need to be decorated and then deployed. Perhaps we could simplify that.
    • Some of the concepts are good for complexity that WAS can handle but could be simplified and better documented, like concepts of well and profile, context, etc.
    • A Liferay war file created using Liferay Developer studio runs fine in Tomcat, however that may not run in WAS 7.x because it needs to be decorated. I had one war for a Liferay portlet with a simple cron job, and had hard time running to WAS server. It was running on the latest free download done on my friends m/c. Other times I have seen that there are issues running a war file that runs on Tomcat but runs on WAS after lot of customization for WAS.
    • The corporations like this however, the product may need better vibrant community of users where issues can be discussed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Mostly we will be renewing unless the strategic direction changes drastically or there are other complelling external circumstances. We've been on a multi year project to modernize our legacy applications and that effort will continue for the foreseeable future.
    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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    IBM
    WebSphere Application Server is used across our organization. Most projects use this for Java products and applications. Being robust and scalable makes it even more usable. We love using WebSphere Application Server due to its configuration management ability made simple and vast across all java related parameters. It is dependent on the features and upgrades and IBM releases some great upgrades to WebSphere Application Server.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Deploys fairly quick enough and like the roll-out update feature decreasing the downtime and also plays well with other integration tools as well.
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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.
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    IBM
    IBM was quick to respond when we had an issue with our specific infrastructure. We raised a PMR, which they picked up quickly and updated us about every step of the way. We had an appropriate fix for quite a business critical issue within a fortnight, which was impressive!
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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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    IBM
    Cleo Integration Clould has many bells and whistles; however, when we added more maps and trading partners, it really slowed down. We found that the Cleo support was very slow to respond and there was a language barrier. IBM Websphere had better customer support and its processing was much faster than Cleo Integration Cloud
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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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    IBM
    • Continuous uptime of the business applications we manage
    • It's now much simpler for me to build and deploy cloud-native applications.
    • Because it can offload for me management and maintenance of the application server to IBM I can focus on the development, deployment and testing of the applications which is more important
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