what is the difference between AWS Autoscaling and AWS Opsworks

Question

Both AWS Autoscaling and AWS Opsworks deals with automatically scaling the application servers. But what is the exact difference between both of the services?

Answer 1

AWS Opsworks undoubtedly uses Autoscaling at its core, but is a much larger umbrella (and more opinionated). It includes deployment and configuration settings for multiple stacks (EC2 servers, ElastiCache, DynamoDb etc...).

By contrast, autoscaling is really just a subset of Ec2 that performs scale (increase/decrease server count) operations according to various alarms you can configure.