Great tool in general, but deprecated and EOL soon.
December 29, 2023

Great tool in general, but deprecated and EOL soon.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
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AWS OpsWorks Stacks

Overall Satisfaction with AWS OpsWorks

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
Opsworks will become EOL soon and we have been using the recommended Systems Manager solution recently which offers a lot more flexibility in terms of orchestration technology (ie. higher Chef versions) and easier to integrate with even more AWS services.

Do you think AWS OpsWorks delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AWS OpsWorks's feature set?

No

Did AWS OpsWorks live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of AWS OpsWorks go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AWS OpsWorks again?

No

AWS Opsworks is good for linking AWS services and setting up and maintaining webservers using Chef.
However, it will become EOL soon so we would not recommend starting new projects using it and instead go for the recommended Systems Manager setup