AWS Config vs. Centilytics

Centilytics

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Config	Score 9.0 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
Centilytics	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Centilytics, an Intelligent cloud management platform, serves as a governance, security & optimization tool to save unnecessary cloud spend with a 360-degree visibility. According to the vendor, it pinpoints loopholes in the cloud infrastructure to put the resources into optimum utilization and check the entire infrastructure for threats and malicious attacks. - Visualize every dollar spent with cloud cost visibility and analysis - Identify inefficiencies in your cloud that slows down…	$0 per month

Pricing

AWS Config

Centilytics

Editions & Modules

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Freemium: $ 0
per month
Premium: 2% of cloud bill
per month
Enterprise: Flexible plan
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Pricing Offerings
AWS Config	Centilytics
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$0.02 per month

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.

We offer a very flexible price for our users -- just 2% of their cloud spend per month. This enables us to keep the pricing competitive and lowest in the industry. Our customers can also avail a Freemium version for zero cost because we want the users to see value in our product before they would like to pay for it.

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Community Pulse
	AWS Config	Centilytics
Considered Both Products	AWS Config Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous Chose AWS Config I have not assessed any other tools that do a similar function to AWS Config. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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?	Centilytics No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	AWS Config	Centilytics
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	VMware Cloud Director Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Score 8.7 out of 10	IBM Turbonomic Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Wiz Score 9.4 out of 10	vRealize Operations (discontinued) Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	AWS Config	Centilytics
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.6 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Config	Centilytics
Likelihood to Recommend	To keep track of changes and to answer many compliance issues this is a life-saver. AWS does a good job providing tools like this. Any AWS workload should be monitored with AWS Config. It even is great for troubleshooting and seeing who changed what at what time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	It can help you define rules for provisioning and configuring of your AWS. We use it for this purpose. It maintains configuration history. So you can use the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI to obtain details of past configurations It gives you a configuration snapshot of all of your AWS resources and you can store it in AWS S3. You can integrate it with AWS CloudTrail to correlate configuration changes to particular events in your account. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Vendor lock-in, no easy migration path for example if you want to move some workloads to Azure, you'd not be able to lift and shift. Only at an AWS resource perspective - cannot do desired state configuration at an OS level (which makes sense but be good if you could even as a separate feature within AWS Config). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	The performance has never been an issue for us, the dashboard gives us real-time monitoring and the alert sends us the notification within less than a minute of it happening, this applies to all of the monitored resources on AWS. However we can't (or probably haven't figured out how to) integrate with any other third party services, so we can't really evaluate how it integrates with other services Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 which is very useful on that level and overall will give you more information about what is currently happening. Meanwhile PaperTrail is more suited to monitor and log your service and could only give you information on the application level. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	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	No answers on this topic
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