Name: AWS OpsWorks
Rating: 4.6 (12 reviews)
Author: Amazon AWS

Help Desk

Kiosk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

AI Code Generation

Development

Board Management

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Demand Planning

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Internal Communications

Risk Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Nonprofit Accounting

Subscription Management

Finance and Accounting

360 Degree Feedback Software

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Freelance Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Build Automation

Cloud Storage

Disaster Recovery

Email Verification

Fraud Detection

IP Address Management (IPAM)

IT Service Providers

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Network Monitoring

Network Performance Monitoring

Object Storage

Output Management

Privileged Access Management

Rack Servers

Release Management

Server Management

Tape Storage

Workload Automation

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Contact Center

Contact Management

Content Management

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Product Sampling

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Video Conferencing

Professional Services

Auction Software

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Revenue Operations

Sales Incentive Compensation Management

Trade Promotion Management

Sales

Database Security

GDPR Compliance

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)

Security

ID Card

Interior Design

Legal Case Management

Mobility as a Service

Nonprofit Advocacy

Nonprofit Fundraising

Vertical-Specific

large

medium

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AWS Config

Configuration Management

Amazon AWS

AWS Systems Manager allows users to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. With it, users can create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments. Systems Manager allows users to select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch compliance status.

OpsCenter

AppConfig

AWS Systems Manager

Cloud Management

Cloud Management Security

Automation and Orchestration

Cost Management

Cloud Management Performance Monitoring

Governance and Compliance

Resource Management

Systems Integration

Microsoft 365 For Families

Microsoft 365 For Individuals

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft Intune

Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

ConfigMgr Microsoft Endpoint Manager Microsoft Intune SCCM System Center Configuration Manager Systems Management Server (SMS)

Microsoft

small

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System) is an agile development product that is an extension of the Microsoft Visual Studio architecture. Azure DevOps includes software development, collaboration, and reporting capabilities.

Basic Plan

Basic + Test Plan

Azure Artifacts

Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted

Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted

Azure DevOps Services

DevOps

Azure DevOps Services Microsoft Visual Studio Team System VSTS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, available on AWS or on-premise through Amazon EKS Anywhere.

Amazon EKS Cluster

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Container Management

Amazon EKS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps users automate release pipelines for fast, reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of the release process every time there is a code change, based on the release model a user defines. This is to enable rapid, reliable delivery of features and updates. Users can integrate AWS CodePipeline with third-party services such as GitHub or with a custom plugin. AWS CodePipeline is pay for what you use, with no upfront fees or long-term commitments.

Free Tier

AWS CodePipeline

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

Basic Tower

Enterprise Tower

Premium Tower

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Ansible Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat

Puppet Enteprise is an IT automation and configuration management solution that enables users to manage and automate infrastructure and complex workflows. The vendor states Puppet Enterprise combines both model‑based and task-based capabilities in a way that enables organizations to scale their multi-cloud infrastructure as their automation footprint grows, with more flexibility from both agent-based and agentless capabilities.

Puppet Enterprise

Puppet Data Center Automation Puppet Enterprise distelli puppet pipelines

Perforce Software

AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.

Azure DevOps Server

Azure DevOps Server TMS Team Foundation Server

Microsoft System Center Suite is a family of IT management software for network monitoring, updating and patching, endpoint protection with anti-malware, data protection and backup, ITIL- structured IT service management, remote administration and more.

It is available in two editions: standard and datacenter. Datacenter provides unlimited virtualization for high density private clouds, while standard is for lightly or non-virtualized private cloud workloads.

Datacenter Edition

Standard Edition

Microsoft System Center

Data Center Infrastructure Management

HashiCorp Consul is a tool for discovering and configuring services in the IT infrastructure. It provides service discovery, health checking, key/value stores and support for multiple data centers out of the box.

Open Source (self-managed)

HCP Consul (Cloud)

HashiCorp Consul

Service Mesh

HashiCorp

AWS OpsWorks

Information Technology & Services

Likelihood to Recommend

Support Rating

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Founded by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com website started in 1995 as a place to buy books because of the unique customer experience the Web could offer book lovers. Bezos believed that only the Internet could offer customers the convenience of browsing a selection of millions of book titles in a single sitting. During the first 30 days of business, Amazon fulfilled orders for customers in 50 states and 45 countries - all shipped from his Seattle-area garage.

Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.

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.

Reviews

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TrustRadius

Time consuming process

Ins and outs

Error logs

Deployment options

Cloud environment

Better options

Time consuming

Consuming process

Auto scaling

Set up

Simple interface

Ec2 instances

Quite intuitive

Easily find

Operating systems

Home

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HashiCorp Terraform

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

Product Usage

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.

AWS OpsWorks 2023-12-20 10:39:34

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AWS OpsWorks

Overview

What is AWS OpsWorks?

Great tool in general, but deprecated and EOL soon.

A powerful/stable infrastructure management tool, but a bit outdated

Good for simple stacks and getting going with AWS + Chef

Reviewer Pros & Cons

Pricing

AWS OpsWorks

What is AWS OpsWorks?

Entry-level set up fee?

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Alternatives Pricing

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Product Details

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AWS OpsWorks Technical Details

Comparisons

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AWS Config

AWS Systems Manager

Microsoft Intune

Azure DevOps Services

Amazon EKS

AWS CodePipeline

Ansible

Puppet Enterprise

Azure DevOps Server

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