AWS Config

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Config	Score 7.2 out of 10	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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AWS Config

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AWS Config
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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.

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Community Pulse
	AWS Config
Considered Both Products	AWS Config Verified User Professional Chose AWS Config As this is native to AWS, we didn't consider anything else. It checks and monitors AWS resources so to check and monitor any other services we use other software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose AWS Config I have not assessed any other tools that do a similar function to AWS Config. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose AWS Config Despite the comparison it is not really apples to apples, the main purpose of the service is quite similar which is to monitor your application or services. In terms of AWS services, AWS Config provides more options to monitor and log your service on the infrastructure level … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose AWS Config I do not know or have used any other product in AWS cloud space that matches what AWS Config provides. We have some custom built monitoring and governance, however that is there because AWS Config does not provide it currently. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Track changes Pro Configuration changes Pro Simple to understand
Top Cons	Minus Vendor lock Minus User friendly Minus No easy

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	AWS Config
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User Ratings
	AWS Config
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (6 ratings)
Performance	9.6 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.2 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Config
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS It's really good if your infrastructure services is all in AWS, that means everything could be audited and monitored using AWS config. You also can create alarms to notify you or your team about any changes on your AWS resources which is very useful to prevent abuse if you have a fairly large team. It's also very useful whenever some third party wants to audit your AWS resources, if you have a fairly comprehensive AWS config configured, the auditing process will be easy since they only need to look at your AWS config setup. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS The ability to track changes in AWS is paramount, AWS config allows you to do this Allows the auditing of an AWS account Can view history of an account that has AWS config enabled Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS It's only AWS, no third party. Not the most intuitive interface, but with a little getting used to it is OK. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	Amazon AWS Would rate lower for other workloads but for AWS workloads its simple to set up, cost effective and customisable. Primary use case is compliance from a governance perspective. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS I do not know or have used any other product in AWS cloud space that matches what AWS Config provides. We have some custom built monitoring and governance, however that is there because AWS Config does not provide it currently. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Enforcing audit requirements Easy to set up alerting when there are rule breaches Auto remediation reduces the manual policing of such breaches Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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