AWS CloudFormation vs. OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management

AWS CloudFormation

OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudFormation	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.…	$0
ZENworks Configuration Management	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	OpenText™ ZENworks Configuration Management, formerly from Micro Focus and earlier from Novell, helps users manage both devices and software across the entire IT environment. A single, unified web console provides insight to both devices and software, improves visibility, and helps reduce costs.	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudFormation

OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management

Editions & Modules

Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account: $0.00
Handler Operation: $0.0009
per handler operation

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudFormation	ZENworks Configuration Management
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudFormation	OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management
Top Pros	Pro Create multiple Pro Easy to build Pro Defined templates	Pro Real time Pro Time reports Pro Real time reports
Top Cons	Minus Use cases Minus Time to create Minus Live support	Minus Software inventory Minus Multiple data sources Minus Project data

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudFormation	OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Vagrant Score 10.0 out of 10	HashiCorp Vagrant Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS CloudFormation	OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (5 ratings)	9.4 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudFormation	OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS AWS CloudFormation is well suited for scenarios where all of your resources need to be provisioned on AWS but it is not suited for hybrid cloud deployments. It's very easy for someone new to learn. The level of customization offered as part of the template specifically for AWS services is great. There is also a UI tool where we can drag and drop the services we want and it generates an yaml file which is very easy to use. The visibility of stacks and its resources and one place where we can track and identify the issues in deployment is great. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OpenText The best data loss management and data recovery tools are very powerful and the Cloud deployment operations after the training is not challenging and easy services and workflow Automation system. The data protection and easy data management for the business i like the software capabilities. Analytics and reports from the platform are also effective on the business production and on great decisions making. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS SaaS Paas Iaas On promises Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OpenText Excellent for the workflow easy Automation. Data management on Cloud via this product is amazing. The real-time reports are quite productive. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Error Description upon Failure Needs to be Improved. Slow to create, delete or update. Need to delete resources manually. It can ask before starting deletion whether to skip those resources or delete them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OpenText Just on deployment to new users on this Micro Focus platform. Help desk can be more responsive to customers. Advanced functionalities manipulation. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS We didn't look into anything else as Cloudformation was "built-in" for AWS, it just kind of made sense to go with that. Terraform was something that we briefly looked into Terraform but decides to stick with Cloudformation because our task was relatively "simple". Apparently if it's a bit more complex, Terraform might be the way to go. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OpenText Magnificent for its convenience with configuration and tuning. Terrific with database recovery and backup. Excellent with new discovery of new virtual servers. Ease of use. Incentivized prema chhaya Database Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS It has a positive ROI Less time inverted in bugs More stable source code Incentivized Manuela Jacqueline Mercado Rodríguez Senior Full Stack Developer Read full review	OpenText Easy recovering potential lost data for the business. Helpful and accurate real-time reporting. Great data analytics for business critical decisions making. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager Read full review
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