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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Config

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Azure Arc

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAzure Arc is a set of technologies that brings Azure security and cloud-native services to hybrid and multicloud environments. It enables the user to secure and govern infrastructure and apps anywhere, build cloud-native apps faster with familiar tools and services to run them on any Kubernetes platform, and modernize the data estate with Azure data and machine-learning services.N/A
    Pricing
    AWS ConfigAzure Arc
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS ConfigAzure Arc
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsWith 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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    Features
    AWS ConfigAzure Arc
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of AWS Config and Azure Arc
    Feature
    AWS Config
    -
    Ratings
    Azure Arc
    9.1
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings9.32 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.32 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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    AWS ConfigAzure Arc
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    Rackspace Fabric
    Score6.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    IBM Turbonomic
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    IBM Turbonomic
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS ConfigAzure Arc
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    AWS ConfigAzure Arc
    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.
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    Microsoft
    It is best asset management & centralized monitoring across multi cloud environments. It can be used to access those assets, update them when necessary, implement Azure monitor to get insights. We can also onboard thsese assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud to provide the cloud security. Azure Arc is not suitable for the client device management or use as a MDM.
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    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
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    Microsoft
    • Azure Monitor metrics
    • Event logs aggregation
    • Integration with Windows Admin Center
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    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.
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    Microsoft
    • Licensing benefits could use some improvement
    • Update management pricing
    • Security optimization and pricing
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    Microsoft
    Azure Arc monitoring is based on a unified procedure which includes the installation and configuration of the Arc agent on any computer/server which is to be onboaded to Arc. The solution is very usable especially when combined with the usage of Windows Admin Center, the HTML5-based unified management console for all our hybrid infrastructure. Many of the best of breed Azure tools and services are available via Azure Arc, when deployed to on-premise servers.
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    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.
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    Microsoft
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    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.
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    Microsoft
    Azure Arc uses the underlying power of Microsoft Azure, which allows assets across multicloud to be onboarded to Arc platform. It provides monitoring, security, updates in one click in one single platform. It also provides licensing benefits for Windows Server licenses, which offers premium features like Windows server admin center to manage your windows servers more effectively.
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    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
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    Microsoft
    • After configuring Azure Arc-enabled services on premise for SQL Server, we saw a drastic decrease in our Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 30%
    • After working with Azure Arc monitoring agents installed in our on-prem Windows and Linux users, we documented a 20% increase in overall IT operations efficiency, due to the unified monitoring solution.
    • The Azure Arc-enabled servers security baseline provides procedural guidance and resources for implementing security recommendations and best practices. This has increased operational efficiency and decreased security incidents by 15%.
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