AWS CloudTrail vs. ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus

AWS CloudTrail

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudTrail	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking,…	N/A
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Patch Manager Plus is an automated patch management software that provides enterprises with a single interface for all patch management tasks. The vendor claims it works across platforms, helping users patch Windows, Mac, Linux & 300+ third-party applications. With Automated Patch Deployments, users can automate the entire process of patch management:…	$245 50 endpoints

Pricing

AWS CloudTrail

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Professional: $245.00
50 endpoints
Enterprise: $345.00
50 endpoints
Professional: $345.00
50 endpoints
Enterprise: $445.00
50 endpoints

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudTrail	ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

You can view, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services free of charge. You can set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region free of charge. Once a CloudTrail trail is set up, Amazon S3 charges apply based on your usage. You will be charged for any data events or additional copies of management events recorded in that region. In addition, you can choose CloudTrail Insights by enabling Insights events in your trails. CloudTrail Insights analyzes write management events, and you are charged based on the number of events that are analyzed in that region.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudTrail	ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
Considered Both Products	AWS CloudTrail AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Chose AWS CloudTrail We mainly needed to focus on logging and auditing of AWS services and activity, while Datadog & New Relic are more about performance monitoring and analytics. Moreover, AWS CloudTrail has a seamless integration with AWS, since it's coming from one bucket of products. So having … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail For this specific functionality, I am not aware of any other product that can do what [AWS] Cloudtrail does. We did not evaluate any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail Our company has not used any alternatives. Within our industry, it seems that AWS CloudTrail is the defacto standard for this type of functionality within the AWS environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS CloudTrail I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies. Incentivized Helpful?	ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus Ivanti Endpoint Manager is used in my full-time job; for my purposes and my own customers, it would be too expensive and overpowered. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus because it fits well in all our requirements Incentivized Helpful? PM Patrick Montmarquet Sysadmin Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus was easier to use, and you can basically set it and forget it. The performance is very good and we had way less failed patch than competing product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus We previously used Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The reporting was extremely limited and all remediation had to be done manually, you can't initiate a reboot or a manual install like you can from ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus. Creation of Automated Patching … Incentivized Helpful? Alexei Karam Senior Systems Analyst Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus SolarWinds was not selected because it runs on top of SCCM which in itself is problematic and unreliable. We need an application that runs in standalone mode and does not rely on any other application. SolarWinds Incentivized Helpful? SC Shiju Chacko System Administrator Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus Cloud Based. Incentivized Helpful? DN David Nada IT Analyst Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus Patch Manager Plus does the most basic job of monitoring machines, deploying packages silently, and keeping machines up to date. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus keeps our devices all under one pool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus The price point is the main reason on why Patch Manager Plus would be better, the better app would always be Defender for Windows environment, but for an environment which has multiple OS, its better to have a non-affiliated patching solution. Incentivized Helpful? LG Lalit Goel Deputy Manager Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus Since we are using ManageEngine for quite a long time, this gives us more comfort than any other product which may not fulfil our needs if chosen. Incentivized Helpful? AP Adriano Pereira Junior Infosec Analyst Chose ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus We were talking to Action1 and Adaptiva about their solutions of patch management. The main factor of choosing ManageEngine was pricing, which was considerably lower compared to these tools. Also, for Action1, it didn't featured some important features (like Linux patching), … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	AWS CloudTrail	ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	7.1 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudTrail	ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
Likelihood to Recommend	Most probably it would be suitable for Finance industries, where security is at the head of the table. However, in our case for E-commerce, it's also quite suitable, since we have quite a significant amount of data and usage of AWS services. Especially with usage of AWS services, AWS CloudTrail comes into play as a heavy plus. For instance, troubleshooting any issues in AWS services is really nice. Therefore, it would be less appropriate with a small amount of AWS service usage and some basic web hosting. Incentivized AS Anton Smyslov Product Owner Read full review	Its a best tool for managing and patching an corporate environment, specially the dashboards and the UI which is relatively easy to adapt for someone without prior knowledge of Patching as well. If a company has Secure Gateway Server, then the remote deployment is a plus, it helps to even remotely deploy patches to the remote employees. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Logs details Easy implementation Great support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	All the patches are tested before delivered to us. It's on cloud so we does not need to maintain Hardware and Network. It also upgrades the hardware drivers & BIOS. But for BIOS only we use monthly updates no automatic policy just push to target computers. Incentivized SC Shiju Chacko System Administrator Read full review
Cons	Delay User interface, must send logs elsewhere to view them Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	If this tool can fetch serial numbers of the devices on which this is deployed This tool should collect all application installed at client machine which is not available as of now. Intergate more application which can be patch using this tool. Incentivized LG Lalit Goel Deputy Manager Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Very easy to use once you get used to it. It can be a little overwhelming at first since there is so many thing you can do. But as soon as you get use to it, it works like a charm. Incentivized PM Patrick Montmarquet Sysadmin Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	The support team at Patch Manager Plus has been awesome. Very responsive and knowledgeable. There are times when there is confusion between different tickets but there is still good service. Incentivized DN David Nada IT Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	For this specific functionality, I am not aware of any other product that can do what [AWS] Cloudtrail does. We did not evaluate any other products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds was not selected because it runs on top of SCCM which in itself is problematic and unreliable. We need an application that runs in standalone mode and does not rely on any other application. SolarWinds is also one of the most expensive. Kaseya and GFI LanGuard are overkill as they contain functionality that we do not need or already have. GFI LanGuard for instance does security auditing the same as Qualys that we already have. Kaseya is a full management and automation solution. Incentivized Alexei Karam Senior Systems Analyst Read full review
Return on Investment	Saved us from purchasing and managing 3rd party solutions Satisfies Security/Governance requirements No upkeep/maintenance Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The tool is cheap compared to any quotes we asked for other suppliers It helps us to accomplish remediation from the vulnerabilities reported by our vulnerability management software It helps us to achieve our infosec goals of risk in our environment Incentivized Adriano Pereira Junior Infosec Analyst Read full review
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