Chose AWS Config
Products don't appear [in the list] but looked at Azure Functions and Service Bus but as per criticisms of AWS Config does enforce vendor lock-in - AWS Config is only used for AWS workloads.
Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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Amazon CloudWatch | N/A | Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring tool for AWS programs. It provides data collection and resource monitoring capabilities. | $0 per canary run | |
AWS Config | N/A | Amazon Web Services offers AWS Config, a service that provides monitoring and assessment of AWS resource configurations to support compliance auditing, change management and troubleshooting, with resource histories and comparison of historical configurations against planned configurations. | N/A |
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Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
Additional Details | With Amazon CloudWatch, there is no up-front commitment or minimum fee; you simply pay for what you use. You will be charged at the end of the month for your usage. | With AWS Config, you are charged based on the number of configuration items recorded, the number of active AWS Config rule evaluations and the number of conformance pack evaluations in your account. A configuration item is a record of the configuration state of a resource in your AWS account. An AWS Config rule evaluation is a compliance state evaluation of a resource by an AWS Config rule in your AWS account, and a conformance pack evaluation is the evaluation of a resource by an AWS Config rule within the conformance pack. | ||||||||||||||
More Pricing Information |
Amazon CloudWatch | AWS Config | |
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Considered Both Products | Amazon CloudWatch No answer on this topic | AWS Config |
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Small Businesses | InfluxDB Score 8.5 out of 10 | HashiCorp Vagrant Score 9.9 out of 10 |
Medium-sized Companies | GitLab Score 8.9 out of 10 | Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10 |
Enterprises | GitLab Score 8.9 out of 10 | Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10 |
All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
Amazon CloudWatch | AWS Config | |
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Likelihood to Recommend | 8.5 (38 ratings) | 8.8 (6 ratings) |
Performance | - (0 ratings) | 9.6 (2 ratings) |
Support Rating | 8.4 (8 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
Ease of integration | - (0 ratings) | 6.2 (2 ratings) |
Amazon CloudWatch | AWS Config | |
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Likelihood to Recommend | Amazon AWS | Amazon AWS |
Pros | Amazon AWS | Amazon AWS |
Cons | Amazon AWS | Amazon AWS |
Performance | Amazon AWS No answers on this topic | Amazon AWS |
Support Rating | Amazon AWS | Amazon AWS No answers on this topic |
Alternatives Considered | Amazon AWS | Amazon AWS |
Return on Investment | Amazon AWS | Amazon AWS |
ScreenShots | Amazon CloudWatch Screenshots |