AWS Config vs. Public Cloud

Public Cloud

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Config	Score 7.0 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
Public Cloud	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

Pricing

AWS Config

Public Cloud

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Config	Public Cloud
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	Public Cloud

Features

AWS Config

Public Cloud

Cloud Management

Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
	AWS Config - Ratings	Public Cloud 8.6 1 Ratings 2% below category average
Cloud Management Security	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration	00 Ratings	7.31 Ratings
Cost Management	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring	00 Ratings	8.21 Ratings
Governance and Compliance	00 Ratings	8.21 Ratings
Resource Management	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings
Systems Integration	00 Ratings	9.11 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWS Config	Public Cloud
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Terraform Score 8.8 out of 10	VMware Cloud Director Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10	IBM Turbonomic Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10	VMware Cloud Director Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	AWS Config	Public Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (6 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.6 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Config	Public Cloud
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	Infomaniak Network Best suited for environments where there are standard processes and no scope for customization and not suitable for industries where the business processes are dynamic and prone to changes frequently. Also, where the users are already experienced or users of SAP would help to easily help to adopt the cloud approach. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Infomaniak Network Scalability Cost Savings Increased Flexibility Improved Safety Ease of Data migration with the help of migration cockpit Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Infomaniak Network Additional processes Better UI Access Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Infomaniak Network 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	Infomaniak Network Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Infomaniak Network Less infrastructure Quick and easy Post-go-live maintenance Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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