AWS Config vs. AWS Trusted Advisor
| 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 Trusted Advisor | Score6.2 out of 10 | N/A | AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides users real time guidance to help provision resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce overall costs, and monitor service limits. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor are designed to help keep solutions provisioned optimally. | N/A |
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| Editions & Modules | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | ||||||||||||||
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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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| AWS Config | AWS Trusted Advisor | |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.8 | 9.0 |
| Performance | 9.6 | - |
| Ease of integration | 6.2 | - |