AWS Config vs. Micro Focus Configuration Management System

AWS Config

Micro Focus Configuration Management System

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Config	Score 8.1 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
Micro Focus CMS	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	Micro Focus Configuration Management System, formerly from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is a configuration management and CMDB solution.	N/A

Pricing

AWS Config

Micro Focus Configuration Management System

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Config	Micro Focus CMS
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

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	Micro Focus Configuration Management System
Top Pros	Pro Track changes Pro Configuration changes Pro Simple to understand	Pro Virtual servers Pro Different databases Pro Cost tracking
Top Cons	Minus Vendor lock Minus User friendly Minus No easy	Minus Monitoring and management Minus Inventory management Minus Change management

Best Alternatives
	AWS Config	Micro Focus Configuration Management System
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Vagrant Score 9.5 out of 10	HashiCorp Vagrant Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 8.7 out of 10	Ansible Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	SUSE Manager Score 9.1 out of 10	SUSE Manager Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS Config	Micro Focus Configuration Management System
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (6 ratings)	9.5 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.6 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Config	Micro Focus Configuration Management System
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	Micro Focus Great for its responsiveness to customer service. Excellent with data replication. Impressive with workflow management. Great with the discovery of new network points. Incentivized George Kennedy Financial Analyst 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	Micro Focus Cost management capability is amazing. Time management functions are helpful. Cloud operations easy acceleration. Incentivized Jessica Meagan DevOps Engineer 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	Micro Focus 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. Incentivized Jessica Meagan DevOps Engineer 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	Micro Focus No answers on this topic
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	Micro Focus It's fabulous software with asset tracking. Magnificent for minimizing cost. Excellent with managing virtual servers. Intuitive user interface. Incentivized George Kennedy Financial Analyst 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	Micro Focus The Cloud services improvement. Helpful on production cost management. Time management and reports are excellent. Incentivized Jessica Meagan DevOps Engineer Read full review
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