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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS OpsWorks

    Score4.3 out of 10
    N/AAWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.N/A

    Azure Resource Manager

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AAzure Resource Manager makes it easy to manage and visualize resources for apps.N/A
    Pricing
    AWS OpsWorksAzure Resource Manager
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    AWS OpsWorksAzure Resource Manager
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    AWS OpsWorksAzure Resource Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
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    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    AWS OpsWorksAzure Resource Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Where you already have some Chef recipes to build your application boxes and are happy to run directly on VMs, OpsWorks really shines. It won't do anything too complex for you, so it only really works well for simple stacks (load balancers, application layers, database layers). If you want to do more complex infrastructure, Cloudformation or Terraform are probably worth looking at.
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    Microsoft
    I solve lots of problems with ARM, We have developed 3 architectures for clients using templates, with the deployment of Azure resources (gateways and load balancers) Its main and best feature is Infrastructure and automation management(extraction load and transformation )ETL, And management of resources via the cloud for platforms, SO that the analytics with its best feature intuitive portal which is very User friendly.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • connect between serveral AWS services (EC2, RDS, ELB)
    • easy configuration management deployment via Chef
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    Microsoft
    • load balancing of lots of user's for their software's accessibility.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Getting up and running with OpsWorks is a very technical and potentially time-consuming process. You need to know the ins and outs of Chef/Puppet if you really want to get into it and there isn't a convenient way to test out the environment locally so debugging can be time-consuming.
    • To take advantage of some of the newer AWS instance types you need to be running on a VPC, which again is a pain if you don't have a DevOps team.
    • The error logs and monitoring metrics in OpsWorks are pretty basic and haven't changed much over the years.
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    Microsoft
    • Templates need to be more flexible with dealing with permissions.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    Unless you pay for a pricey support package getting support on OpsWorks will be pretty slow. Documentation is also relatively limited and sometimes hard to follow when compared to competitors. Generally, we've been able to get the answers we need from OpsWorks support when we run into problems but don't expect rapid responses.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    OpsWorks isn't really a direct competitor to Terraform/Cloudformation, but it does allow you to do some of the more simple things on offer quite quickly and effectively. Opsworks was used for this reason, along with existing internal knowledge of Chef. Along with some of the other services on offer from AWS, it is good to use as a stepping stone along the way when building your systems - or perhaps it would be entirely suitable for a fairly simple project.
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    Microsoft
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • very quick way of creating new infrastructure
    • low maintenance costs
    • easy to create high availability setups thus reducing costs
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    Microsoft
    • It had been very positive makes deployment faster with its Templates.
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