AWS Config vs. OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management

AWS Config

OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Config	Score 7.2 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
ZENworks Configuration Management	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	OpenText™ ZENworks Configuration Management, formerly from Micro Focus and earlier from Novell, helps users manage both devices and software across the entire IT environment. A single, unified web console provides insight to both devices and software, improves visibility, and helps reduce costs.	N/A

Pricing

AWS Config

OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Config	ZENworks Configuration Management
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	OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management
Top Pros	Pro Track changes Pro Configuration changes Pro Simple to understand	Pro Real time Pro Time reports Pro Real time reports
Top Cons	Minus Vendor lock Minus User friendly Minus No easy	Minus Software inventory Minus Multiple data sources Minus Project data

Best Alternatives
	AWS Config	OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Vagrant Score 10.0 out of 10	HashiCorp Vagrant Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS Config	OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (6 ratings)	9.4 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.6 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Config	OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management
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	OpenText The best data loss management and data recovery tools are very powerful and the Cloud deployment operations after the training is not challenging and easy services and workflow Automation system. The data protection and easy data management for the business i like the software capabilities. Analytics and reports from the platform are also effective on the business production and on great decisions making. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager 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	OpenText Excellent for the workflow easy Automation. Data management on Cloud via this product is amazing. The real-time reports are quite productive. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager 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	OpenText Just on deployment to new users on this Micro Focus platform. Help desk can be more responsive to customers. Advanced functionalities manipulation. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager 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	OpenText 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	OpenText Magnificent for its convenience with configuration and tuning. Terrific with database recovery and backup. Excellent with new discovery of new virtual servers. Ease of use. Incentivized prema chhaya Database Administrator 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	OpenText Easy recovering potential lost data for the business. Helpful and accurate real-time reporting. Great data analytics for business critical decisions making. Incentivized Annette Gilmour Senior Project Manager Read full review
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