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AWS OpsWorks
OpsWorks facilitates the management, monitoring and maintenance of the complete stack of Chef's infrastructure, to be part of AWS has a large community for support and assistance, it also concentrates a lot of documentation that can empower our devops area to shorten the curve Learning. Good tool to automate tasks for the company's devops and IT staff.
Analista de Proyectos
Cyberline SRLTelecommunications, 51-200 employees
Consul
Consul looks to me like an amazing solution to store configuration data. In huge cloud environments like what we are using nowadays, it is quite important to have a reliable source of parameters to our distributed applications, easily scalable and also, easy to change parameters spreading them efficiently over our entire environment.
Senior Devops Engineer
SOTIComputer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees
Pros
AWS OpsWorks
- The interface is quite intuitive and allows you to discover and easily find what you want to do and what other features are within OpsWorks.
- Chef integration is pretty seamless and there are a good set of options and operating systems to choose from
- It makes things like auto scaling set up, either via load or time, more straight forward and intuitive than what you'd typically see via the EC2 console
Backend Software Engineer
10 Digital Media LimitedSports, 1-10 employees
Consul
- Service Health: Using Consul for service health/discovery has been critical to our success in a hybrid environment
- K/V Store: The Consul K/V store is the best solution out there for our particular use case, which is as a locking mechanism to coordinate otherwise random runs of our configuration management system. This has allowed us to have peace of mind of system availability in our on-prem infrastructure.
- API: The Consul API as a whole is excellent and extremely easy to work with
- Documentation: Hashicorp really does documentation well. Their examples are easy to follow and everything is written in a manner that is easy to understand for beginners with the tool.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employeesCons
AWS OpsWorks
- 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesConsul
- We would like to see more out of the box training for Consul use.
- Best practice examples would be nice for routing.
- The agent could be easier to run.
Operations/Systems Manager
Crowell SystemsComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Usability
AWS OpsWorks
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Consul
Consul 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Consul's API is extremely user friendly. While their web interface isn't quite as "mature", it's still pretty easily navigated for the average person. Together they make a pretty easy to pick up and use tool.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employeesSupport Rating
AWS OpsWorks
AWS OpsWorks 6.0
Based on 1 answer
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesConsul
Consul 8.2
Based on 4 answers
I've never used paid support from HashiCorp, but I consider its support a good one, since they provide a lot of free resources for the community and there are good user groups supporting you on several sorts of issues. Also, HashiCorp is known as a company with a strong relationship with the community, that is easily noticed by the events HashiCorp promotes over the world.
Senior Devops Engineer
SOTIComputer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
AWS OpsWorks
OpsWorks is an orchestration tool, basically you use it to specify the state you want your network to be in by specifying the state you want each resource (server instances, applications, storage) in which you want that resource to be. And specify the state in which you want each resource.The evaluated competitors have other benefits that in our case did not provide as many benefits as OpsWorks.
Analista de Proyectos
Cyberline SRLTelecommunications, 51-200 employees
Consul
We studied Zoekeeper, trying to decide which could become our service broker tool of choice. But although it is meant to be a very high performance tool, it got immensely shadowed by the vast plethora of available tools that Consul offers. The monitoring, health checking tools, as well as the key-value data storage and gossip clustering functionalities just could not be beaten
Sr. Software Developer
CONSLOG - Construction SoftwareInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
AWS OpsWorks
- OpsWorks has allowed some of our more simple application stacks to be implemented quickly and effectively. Whilst it is difficult to put actual numbers on it, it meant we could hit the ground running before tackling the more complex world of Cloudformation/Terraform to manage parts of our infrastructure.
Backend Software Engineer
10 Digital Media LimitedSports, 1-10 employees
Consul
- Consul has paid for itself just in monitoring and keeping us notified alone.
- Configuration changes can be monitored and will make even your Security team smile.
- The time saving tools will help make even a lean IT team work like a larger force.
Operations/Systems Manager
Crowell SystemsComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
AWS OpsWorks
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Consul
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No