AWS Batch vs. JAMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Batch
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
With AWS Batch, users package the code for batch jobs, specify dependencies, and submit batch jobs using the AWS Management Console, CLIs, or SDKs. AWS Batch allows users to specify execution parameters and job dependencies, and facilitates integration with a broad range of popular batch computing workflow engines and languages (e.g., Pegasus WMS, Luigi, Nextflow, Metaflow, Apache Airflow, and AWS Step Functions).N/A
JAMS
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
JAMS is a centralized workload automation and job scheduling solution that runs, monitors, and manages jobs and workflows. Reliably orchestrate the critical IT processes that run your business from a single pane of glass.N/A
Pricing
AWS BatchJAMS
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS BatchJAMS
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AWS BatchJAMS
Top Pros

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Features
AWS BatchJAMS
Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
AWS Batch
7.7
6 Ratings
6% below category average
JAMS
7.8
37 Ratings
5% below category average
Multi-platform scheduling8.35 Ratings8.131 Ratings
Central monitoring7.85 Ratings8.035 Ratings
Logging7.35 Ratings7.735 Ratings
Alerts and notifications8.15 Ratings8.035 Ratings
Analysis and visualization6.05 Ratings7.333 Ratings
Application integration8.76 Ratings7.734 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AWS BatchJAMS
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
Score 8.6 out of 10
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Redwood RunMyJobs
Redwood RunMyJobs
Score 9.4 out of 10
Redwood RunMyJobs
Redwood RunMyJobs
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS BatchJAMS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
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6.9
(6 ratings)
Availability
-
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8.2
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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8.2
(37 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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7.7
(5 ratings)
Configurability
-
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6.8
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
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7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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7.9
(35 ratings)
Professional Services
-
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
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8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS BatchJAMS
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
More appropriate if you have a tech group that can use more of the AWS Batch rather than one or 2 things. It works great for me, but there was a huge learning curve the first week of using it. Now, I love it - and I hope to dig deep into other parts not just S3.
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Fortra
JAMS is well suited for centralizing schedules. We have hundreds of databases, and JAMS has allowed us to centralize the scheduling of all of the individual jobs related to each individual database. This allows certain teams to follow the activity of specific jobs without having to access the individual servers on which the databases reside.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • S3 amount of files
  • Easy to share files to other sites
  • Like that the files and folders can be open and public or completely private
  • I like that you can have double or mirroring in different Data Centers for Data Recovery
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Fortra
  • Watching for files
  • Running Power shell scripts
  • JOB notifications of failures to teams
  • Being able to interface / run other programs as either dos window, Power shell window, Python window through configurable execution methods
  • Purging JAMS history by Parameters, like dates and # of copies to keep of a job
  • Being able to configure a hot backup to take over in the event a Primary JAMS Server goes down, the backup automatically kicks in after 3 minutes. - High Availability mode
  • Being able to set up variables that can be used in JOBs / Sequences to hold login information (encrypted), date ranges or other Job Parameter values. And be able to programmatically updated by Power shell scripts to track progress between runs of the same job: count of orders processed, API Skip values when retrieving orders, when the API call only returns X amount per call and you need to get all available orders with multiple calls
  • JOB logs can be put anywhere on network for other users to access - IT allowing of course. With the high availability option, this is Great, since you don't have to check each of the JAMS Servers for a log when a fail over occures
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Jobs monitoring dashboards are not matured
  • Documentation and support is something which can be improved
  • Sometime i faced the slow response or slow in performance i would say
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Fortra
  • Prior to JAMS I organized various batch job runs with a user friendly naming process (job, machine, date, etc). I had to jump through hoops to get JAMS to replicate by having a post-completion job rename and copy the log.
  • Natively support JAMS commands in Powershell7.
  • Failsafe guard to prevent runaway jobs that submit other JAMS jobs that were improperly coded. i.e. A throttle setting for new JOBS. I once had production go down when hundreds of jobs used up our daily license allocation in under a minute.
  • I have similar (but different) Execution Methods that would benefit from a shared template. Current setup is awkward to change.
  • I'd love my job Definitions to be natively linked to github for version control.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
JAMS is an essential application within our organization. There is no chance that at any point in the foreseeable future we would migrate off of the platform or stop our maintenance contract. HelpSystems (now rebranded Forta) releases frequent updates which always add value to the product. The system's reliability and extensibility has earned our trust that it will scale with our organization.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
At first its not 100% obvious what each item is meant for. When you look at the list for the first time there are a lot of objects, its taken some time to figure out what each one does. Once you figure out what each one does it makes more sense.
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Reliability and Availability
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
JAMS has been super reliable in our implementation. The only reason it isn't a 10 is the web client isn't fully functional so the availability suffers very mildly there
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Performance
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
JAMS performs well but the client some times take a little longer than normal to display logs and new views.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
We had a very aggressive timeline to look for a new batch job processor that is compatible with our new server that could help us maintain and improve our current data processing procedure. The JAMS support team was there to address our inquiries promptly. On average, their response times have been within 24 hours, ensuring that we receive assistance when we need it
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
I Was not part of the original Implementation, and the persons did that are no longer with the Organization. But I was part of the recent Upgrade process a year ago and I am the JAMS admin and was very pleased
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
We wanted to start everything on a scale & with fewer resources to manage the underlying infrastructure.
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Fortra
JAMS is easier to use, provides more features and was easier to manage form a central location. simple features in JAMS were missing from VisualCron such as a projected daily schedule. The install setup with a client and agents was better suited for us too
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
i didnt have any involvement in the sales process, however we purchased the product so it had to be decent.
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
I can only speak in in regards to scalability in the volume of jobs we have created. Many of our jobs exist in multiple environments, with each environment having its own unique folder names, connection strings, etc. We incorporate parameters on the folder level that contain the unique environment information. The jobs reference these values from the folder they are contained in, so we can easily copy a job from DEV to TEST and the source is the same but the values passed from the parameters are not. This makes it very easy to create many new jobs and copy them across multiple environments and have them work
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Professional Services
Amazon AWS
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Fortra
i didnt have any involvement in the sales process, however we purchased the product so it had to be decent.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Overall over business is able to save the cost
  • Saved our times to improve the existing process
  • Able to integrate with other applications as well, so that is plus point
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Fortra
  • JAMS was not the most cost-effective solution to the original program we were implementing at my Agency; but we were able to expand on the services we do provide using it's power and flexibility to enhance other program areas.
  • The cost-model from MVPSI has been great in allowing us to deploy a DEVELOPMENT, STAGING, then PRODUCTION scheduler integrating the platform into our SDLC.
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ScreenShots

JAMS Screenshots

Screenshot of Dashboard - Job HistoryScreenshot of Visual Job EditorScreenshot of Centralized Job RepositoryScreenshot of Job Monitor