Name: AWS OpsWorks
Rating: 4.3 (12 reviews)
Author: Amazon AWS

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Customer Support

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

Software Repositories

WebOps

Development

Board Management

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Document Management

Enterprise Asset Management

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Policy Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Expense Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Corporate Volunteering

Employee Recognition

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Marketing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Cloud Cost Management

Cloud Storage

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Data Center Outsourcing (USA)

Data Mapping

Firewall Security Management

Fraud Detection

Hosted Virtual Desktop

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

MLOps

Network Performance Monitoring

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Product Implementation Services

Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Workload Automation

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Account-Based Marketing (ABM)

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Click Fraud

Content Management

Data Cleansing

Email Marketing

Event Management

Gamification

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Text to Speech

Virtual Event

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Headless eCommerce

Sales

Database Security

GDPR Compliance

Video Surveillance

Security

Civil Engineering

Hotel Management

InsurTech

Lease Management

Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

Oil and Gas

Pharmacy

Public Transportation

Scholarship Management

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AWS OpsWorks

Configuration Management

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Tools and features offered by configuration management software.

Infrastructure Automation

Automate the setup of systems to achieve their desired state using configuration files.

Automated Provisioning

Automatically and systematically deploy, configure, and manage IT infrastructure and resources.

Parallel Execution

Allows for the simultaneous execution of configuration changes across multiple nodes or components.

Node Management

Allows for the administration and oversight of individual devices or systems within a network.

Reporting & Logging

Generate reports and logs to track changes made to configurations, aiding in troubleshooting and auditing.

Inventory Control

Maintain an inventory of all devices, servers, and components in the infrastructure and track the configurations and attributes of each item.

Version Control

Track changes made to configurations over time. Allowing for rollback to previous configurations if needed.

Role-based access control

Implement RBAC to control access to configuration management features based on roles and responsibilities.

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Time consuming process

Ins and outs

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Auto scaling

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Opsworks is one of the main orchestration system we use for creating AWS services and connecting between them.
We've been using Opsworks for nearly 8 years and it has successfully allowed us to build and host infrastructure for large Drupal websites.

connect between serveral AWS services (EC2, RDS, ELB)
easy configuration management deployment via Chef

integrating with newer AWS services (ie. ALB)
keeping up with Chef releases (ie. locked at 12 currently)

very quick way of creating new infrastructure
low maintenance costs
easy to create high availability setups thus reducing costs

We currently use Opsworks to help orchestrate parts of our infrastructure and manage instances via Chef recipes. It is used for the majority of the backend services we produce. It gives us a framework around which to hang our applications and an easy way to rebuild servers, auto-scale services and do basic monitoring.

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

There are no true deployment options, so you cannot specify rolling-deploys for example. It is possible to emulate some of these things, but it really is an exercise for the reader.
Generally pushes you down the road of mutable infrastructure (as opposed to immutable infrastructure). It would be nice if there were better options around this.

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.

We currently use AWS OpsWorks in hosting our application core. It forms the foundation of our product, which is used by the entire company; however, only a few select members of our backend team manage it directly. AWS OpsWorks allows us to leverage the powerful EC2 infrastructure without having to build out a custom instance management system.

OpsWorks provides a relatively simple interface for connecting with the ELB and bringing up/taking down EC2 instances.
OpsWorks stacks and layers allow you to logically organize your infrastructure to match your system architecture.
OpsWorks can assist in monitoring instance health and has a decent auto-scaling feature to recover from potential load-based outages.

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.

OpsWorks allowed us to access the AWS infrastructure with a considerably lower time investment than we would have otherwise needed when we first implemented it.
Since we've been running with OpsWorks we've experienced very little downtime and it's required relatively little maintenance.
The main downside of using OpsWorks for us is that it has locked us into a very specific infrastructure that doesn't have the flexibility of many of the newer infrastructure management tools, this may lead to a painful migration down the road. We also run a risk of long outage if it ever does introduce breaking changes as the skillset needed to work with the OpsWorks tooling is very specific not widely available in our company.

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AWS OpsWorks

Overview

What is AWS OpsWorks?