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Attribute Ratings
- AWS OpsWorks and Vagrant, by HashiCorp are tied in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
AWS OpsWorks
80%
3 Ratings
8.0
Vagrant
80%
14 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
AWS OpsWorks
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
Vagrant
90%
1 Rating
Usability
AWS OpsWorks
N/A
0 Ratings
5.5
Vagrant
55%
1 Rating
Support Rating
6.0
AWS OpsWorks
60%
2 Ratings
Vagrant
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
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
Vagrant
I would recommend this tool to a colleague looking to create a repeatably deployable local dev environment based on their staging and production environments. I would recommend this mostly for individuals or teams requiring environments with server-side software such as php, et al. There are likely less processor-heavy and smaller tools for simpler projects.
Front End Developer / Marketing Technologist
Island City MediaRetail, 1-10 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
Vagrant
- Vagrant is decentralized so anyone can make a container package to get a project started. you aren't limited to wordpress, or even one style of wordpress install (you can make a sage.io wordpress environment).
- Vagrant easily lets you set ports and URLs for local development.
- I have yet to have a problem with Vagrant, as opposed to MAMP and DesktopServer, which both gave me SQL or other issues.
Freelance Web Developer
SJI Associates | Design & AdvertisingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Cons
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 employeesVagrant
- Because Vagrant is a low-level tool with many ways to configure it, there is a steep learning curve. You don't just have to learn (or install) Vagrant, but also Virtualbox, Ansible and possibly some Vagrant plugins to keep boxes up to date.
- Support on Windows doesn't seem great. I'm a Mac guy, so it's been very difficult getting things to work as expected when a developer wants to work on Windows.
- Perhaps I didn't configure it correctly, but the default shared folders are not the best for performance. There are also frequently weird issues regarding file permissions.
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Pinpoint Software, Inc.Internet, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
AWS OpsWorks
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Vagrant
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
AWS OpsWorks
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Vagrant
Vagrant 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Vagrant is fast, versatile and does exactly what we need it to do: spin up virtual servers for local development fast and without trouble.
Freelance Web Developer
SJI Associates | Design & AdvertisingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Usability
AWS OpsWorks
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Vagrant
Vagrant 5.5
Based on 1 answer
A GUI would be nice for entry level users.
Senior Front-end developer
Velocity PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Support Rating
AWS OpsWorks
AWS OpsWorks 6.0
Based on 2 answers
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 employeesVagrant
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
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
Vagrant
I liked lando better because lando seemed extremely easy to setup compared to other VM's and it seemed faster though that project was simpler. Virtualbox I ran on windows and it has a gui and has often been slow. The vagrant boxes I used did well but had slightly more problems than lando.
Sr. Software Engineer
ICF NextComputer Software, 1001-5000 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
Vagrant
- Vagrant is free - It requires a bit of extra technical knowledge in terms of setup, but since it costs nothing it's an excellent resource
- It can be time consuming to learn, but once you get a good handle on it you're in good shape.
Web Developer
Grady BrittonMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees