AWS Config vs. OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Config
Score 7.2 out of 10
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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
OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Formerly from Micro Focus, OpenTextâ„¢ Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB discovers, maps, and manages IT configurations and can be deployed on-premises or via SaaS. It is used to increase IT visibility and reduce IT service disruptions with robust discovery, service dependency mapping, and proactive impact analysis.N/A
Pricing
AWS ConfigOpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS ConfigOpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
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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Community Pulse
AWS ConfigOpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
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AWS ConfigOpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
Small Businesses
HashiCorp Vagrant
HashiCorp Vagrant
Score 9.9 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Ansible
Ansible
Score 8.9 out of 10
Freshservice
Freshservice
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Ansible
Ansible
Score 8.9 out of 10
Freshservice
Freshservice
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS ConfigOpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(6 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS ConfigOpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
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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OpenText
Micro Focus Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB is well suited for medium to large IT operations after a careful review and strategy definition of all support tools that will be integrated. When it comes to deciding on a set of tools for IT operation management and its different processes like Incident, event, and change management; a good approach would be to create a roadmap with the integrated suite of tools to create a native ecosystem and reduce complexity on the integration and adoption.
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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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OpenText
  • Management and organization of Configuration Items
  • Ensures a single and uniform source of database to avoid any ambiguity between departments.
  • Proper delivery of services
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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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OpenText
  • When getting started the Cloud deployment may be not that easy.
  • To manipulate the system deeply requires a professional operator.
  • Working on large data project.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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OpenText
Old versions which do not support CMS have a luck of user experience and performance for reports and service modeling.
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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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OpenText
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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OpenText
Some complex issues regarding performance and platform upgrades have been difficult to address and have short time solutions.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
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OpenText
Upgrades from old versions were really hard to handle.
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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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OpenText
Quite competing products but short learning curve and fitment in our IT Landscape were main differentiators.
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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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OpenText
  • ensured proper service delivery which helped organizations to grow
  • It was a little expensive for the company.
  • Mainly had a positive impact especially in the cases of risk assessment and analysis.
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