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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling vs Spot by Flexera comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 19, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers substantial ROI, over 50% for high loads, outperforming GCP, with cost-effective instance deployment.
Sentiment score
7.9
Spot by Flexera cut compute costs by 75%, saved over 500,000 euros annually, and improved flexibility and operations.
By using Spot by Flexera across a year, we were able to save more than 500,000 euros.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Our technology predicts demand, selects the cheapest instance mix, sizes the workloads appropriately, and scales it automatically based on policy, resulting in significant savings by reducing manual work and enhancing our flexibility, which has helped accelerate our deployments.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I cannot share the exact number, but I can share the figure that my EC2 and EKS compute cost reduced by around 65 to 75% with Spot.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling support is highly rated for responsiveness and effectiveness, despite challenges with third-party integrations.
Sentiment score
8.4
Spot by Flexera provides responsive and effective customer service, receiving high ratings for their excellent technical support.
I would rate the technical support of AWS a nine, as their team resolves issues effectively and meets our expectations.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
They have very good support.
Cloud Architect Consultant at T-Systems International
I would rate the customer support a nine out of ten.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not have to use it many times, but the few times that we did use it, it was very fast and very useful.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling efficiently adapts to demand changes, supporting scalability with features like load balancing and server automation.
Sentiment score
7.6
Spot by Flexera is scalable, adaptable, and open-source, effectively managing AWS expansions and connecting diverse data sources.
The scaling feature appears to be embedded in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling price.
Senior Analyst - Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is also a very easy tool to connect to different data sources and different servers since it is open source.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Spot's scalability is quite good, and it can be expanded to multiple environments.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is praised for its stability, resilience, and effective performance, with up to 99% reported uptime.
Sentiment score
6.3
Spot by Flexera is stable but faces data update delays, requiring manual IT asset corrections and user-reported server discrepancies.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling should automatically scale out systems during high demand and scale in new instances when demand decreases.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
The stability of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling rates a 10.
Senior Analyst - Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
In Spot by Flexera, we could see both computers, the old and the new one, but the system was not recognizing that the old one was no longer being used.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Enhancements needed in scalability, customization, integration, documentation, UI, pricing, predictive scaling, security, and vertical scaling for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.
Spot by Flexera could improve through storage cost optimization, better integrations, enhanced UI guidance, timely updates, and Kubernetes insights.
Amazon should provide more detailed training materials for people who are just starting to work with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.
Cloud Architect at Acmegrade
In enterprise environments such as healthcare or banking with numerous instances running different applications, customizable policies allow appropriate scaling.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
The ability to ask questions about documentation through a chat interface would be valuable.
Senior Analyst - Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Continuously making advancements based on customer feedback.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Spot could be improved by adding features that help identify data to optimize storage costs by detecting datasets within our environment based on criteria such as age and usage.
AVP DevOps and Product Support at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
More guided onboarding would help teams adopt advanced features faster.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers flexible pricing based on usage, with careful management needed to control potential costs.
Users praise Spot by Flexera's pricing for its competitiveness and convenience, rating it highly against market alternatives.
It operates on a pay-as-you-go model, meaning if a machine is used for only an hour, the pricing will be calculated for that hour only, not the entire month.
Cloud Architect at Acmegrade
In some projects, incorrect decisions were made by not consulting them first, resulting in higher setup and maintenance costs.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
The pricing is reasonable and convenient, and the value it offers is completely in line with what I am spending.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
I was aware of different pricing, setup costs, and licensing across the company.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ensures efficient demand scaling, cost-effectiveness, and seamless integration with CloudWatch for optimal resource management.
Spot by Flexera optimizes cloud costs, manages resources efficiently, and integrates with AWS, improving scalability and decision-making with AI.
This pre-configuration makes on-demand scaling refined, and the configuration includes automatic traffic distribution because when the first system is overloaded, new incoming traffic is redirected to the newly created systems.
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
The service offers 99.9999% availability. We have high availability, and I haven't experienced any downtime during my usage periods.
Senior Analyst - Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The best feature I appreciate about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is its health check functionality; when a server becomes unreachable or enters an unhealthy state, it automatically triggers an alert, and the load balancer responds by spinning up a new server, ensuring that traffic is distributed effectively.
Senior AWS Consultant at Quantum Integrators
Spot's automated cost optimization works by continuously analyzing the workload and applying policies to minimize cloud spend without sacrificing performance.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The fact that it can mix dozens of instance families dynamically is something which the AWS native autoscalers simply cannot do.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Spot helps us detect such changes within AWS at least one hour prior, allowing us to have a mitigation plan in place and host other servers within the same setup to avoid impacting the application.
AVP DevOps and Product Support at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Ranking in Compute Service
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spot by Flexera
Ranking in Compute Service
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (19th), Server Virtualization Software (14th), Cloud Operations Analytics (1st), Cloud Analytics (3rd), Containers as a Service (CaaS) (3rd), Cloud Cost Management (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is 5.9%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spot by Flexera is 4.5%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Compute Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling5.9%
Spot by Flexera4.5%
Other89.6%
Compute Service
 

Featured Reviews

Karthikeyan Ganesan - PeerSpot reviewer
Scrum Master/ Agile Coach at Porch Group
Offers automatic scaling features but can improve user interface and setup guidance
Customizable policies help us determine how scaling should occur. In enterprise environments such as healthcare or banking with numerous instances running different applications, customizable policies allow appropriate scaling. For critical servers, we can set up a higher number of new instances to scale out to prevent downtime. For less critical servers that perform simple tasks such as file copying, we can use customizable policies to scale out minimal instances to avoid unnecessary expenses or cloud costs. Regarding integration, there are some disadvantages in AWS where certain availability zones or regions experience glitches. This can cause production halts because of problems on Amazon's side. In particular regions, when integrating Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling or other services, there might be delays in creating new Amazon EC2 instances, sometimes becoming inefficient.
Bruna Müller - PeerSpot reviewer
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Centralized asset data has transformed how we manage licenses and make cost-saving decisions
One problem that we faced using Spot by Flexera is that in certain servers, the data was not being updated correctly, and we had a certain delay. For example, someone was using a computer, and then this user received a new one. In Spot by Flexera, we could see both computers, the old and the new one, but the system was not recognizing that the old one was no longer being used. We had a couple of IT assets that were not being used, and we had this information in our internal servers, but Spot by Flexera was not able to update on time. We had to fix this information manually.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
9%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Performing Arts
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise28
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
Regarding licensing and setup costs, we always study in detail using lower environments such as User Acceptance Testing or sandbox environments. Before creation, we consult AWS official documentati...
What needs improvement with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
I don't work with predictive scaling. I know this feature, but I have never worked with it. For me, availability is something different. If you want to set up your application to be highly availabl...
What is your primary use case for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
I have been working with this product for almost more than 10 years. I worked on a backup recovery project for a customer. I set up the backup recovery for them because they had multiple accounts. ...
What needs improvement with Spot Ocean?
One problem that we faced using Spot by Flexera is that in certain servers, the data was not being updated correctly, and we had a certain delay. For example, someone was using a computer, and then...
What is your primary use case for Spot Ocean?
For the past two years, I have been developing a project to implement Spot by Flexera as a software asset management tool. It is used to manage all the IT assets and software licenses within all th...
What advice do you have for others considering Spot Ocean?
The interface of Spot by Flexera was very simple to use. Spot by Flexera Academy had lots of important information that made the usage even easier. In general, I do not think there are any addition...
 

Also Known As

AWS RAM
Spot Ocean, Spot Elastigroup, Spot Eco
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Freshworks, Zalando, Red Spark, News, Trax, ETAS, Demandbase, BeesWa, Duolingo, intel, IBM, N26, Wix, EyeEm, moovit, SAMSUNG, News UK, ticketmaster
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