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Likelihood to Recommend
AWS Config
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Professional Training & Coaching Company, 11-50 employeesVagrant
I would recommend this tool to a colleague looking to create a repeatably deployable local dev environment based on their staging and production environments. I would recommend this mostly for individuals or teams requiring environments with server-side software such as php, et al. There are likely less processor-heavy and smaller tools for simpler projects.
Front End Developer / Marketing Technologist
Island City MediaRetail, 1-10 employees
Pros
AWS Config
- 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.

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesVagrant
- Vagrant is decentralized so anyone can make a container package to get a project started. you aren't limited to wordpress, or even one style of wordpress install (you can make a sage.io wordpress environment).
- Vagrant easily lets you set ports and URLs for local development.
- I have yet to have a problem with Vagrant, as opposed to MAMP and DesktopServer, which both gave me SQL or other issues.
Freelance Web Developer
SJI Associates | Design & AdvertisingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Cons
AWS Config
- 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).

Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employeesVagrant
- Because Vagrant is a low-level tool with many ways to configure it, there is a steep learning curve. You don't just have to learn (or install) Vagrant, but also Virtualbox, Ansible and possibly some Vagrant plugins to keep boxes up to date.
- Support on Windows doesn't seem great. I'm a Mac guy, so it's been very difficult getting things to work as expected when a developer wants to work on Windows.
- Perhaps I didn't configure it correctly, but the default shared folders are not the best for performance. There are also frequently weird issues regarding file permissions.
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Pinpoint Software, Inc.Internet, 1-10 employees
Likelihood to Renew
AWS Config
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Vagrant
Vagrant 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Vagrant is fast, versatile and does exactly what we need it to do: spin up virtual servers for local development fast and without trouble.
Freelance Web Developer
SJI Associates | Design & AdvertisingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Usability
AWS Config
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Vagrant
Vagrant 5.5
Based on 1 answer
A GUI would be nice for entry level users.
Senior Front-end developer
Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Performance
AWS Config
AWS Config 9.6
Based on 4 answers
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

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Professional Training & Coaching Company, 11-50 employeesVagrant
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Alternatives Considered
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.

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesVagrant
I liked lando better because lando seemed extremely easy to setup compared to other VM's and it seemed faster though that project was simpler. Virtualbox I ran on windows and it has a gui and has often been slow. The vagrant boxes I used did well but had slightly more problems than lando.
Sr. Software Engineer
ICF NextComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
AWS Config
- Security awareness. With multiple teams deploying provides easy visibility on any security risks. Security breaches would have a substantial impact on business so a vital investment with little costs.

Verified User
Professional in Finance and Accounting
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employeesVagrant
- Vagrant is free - It requires a bit of extra technical knowledge in terms of setup, but since it costs nothing it's an excellent resource
- It can be time consuming to learn, but once you get a good handle on it you're in good shape.
Web Developer
Grady BrittonMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
AWS Config
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Vagrant
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No