AWS Config vs. AWS Systems Manager
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 AWS Config | Score7 out of 10 | N/A | Amazon Web Services offers AWS Config, a service that provides monitoring and assessment of AWS resource configurations to support compliance auditing, change management and troubleshooting, with resource histories and comparison of historical configurations against planned configurations. | N/A |
AWS Systems Manager | Score7 out of 10 | N/A | 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… | $0.20 Per Million Calls |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | With AWS Config, you are charged based on the number of configuration items recorded, the number of active AWS Config rule evaluations and the number of conformance pack evaluations in your account. A configuration item is a record of the configuration state of a resource in your AWS account. An AWS Config rule evaluation is a compliance state evaluation of a resource by an AWS Config rule in your AWS account, and a conformance pack evaluation is the evaluation of a resource by an AWS Config rule within the conformance pack. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.8 | 8.0 |
| Performance | 9.6 | - |
| Ease of integration | 6.2 | - |