AWS Config vs. CloudDRIVE

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Config
Score 7.0 out of 10
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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
CloudDRIVE
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
CSS Corp in Milpitas, California offers CloudDRIVE, a cloud management platform designed to optimize application performance and reduce costs post cloud migration, and smooth adoption of new cloud capabilities and applications.N/A
Pricing
AWS ConfigCloudDRIVE
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS ConfigCloudDRIVE
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsWith 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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Community Pulse
AWS ConfigCloudDRIVE
Considered Both Products
AWS Config
Chose AWS Config
As this is native to AWS, we didn't consider anything else. It checks and monitors AWS resources so to check and monitor any other services we use other software.
Chose AWS Config
I have not assessed any other tools that do a similar function to AWS Config.
Chose AWS Config
Despite the comparison it is not really apples to apples, the main purpose of the service is quite similar which is to monitor your application or services. In terms of AWS services, AWS Config provides more options to monitor and log your service on the infrastructure level …
Chose AWS Config
Products don't appear [in the list] but looked at Azure Functions and Service Bus but as per criticisms of AWS Config does enforce vendor lock-in - AWS Config is only used for AWS workloads.
Chose AWS Config
I do not know or have used any other product in AWS cloud space that matches what AWS Config provides. We have some custom built monitoring and governance, however that is there because AWS Config does not provide it currently.
CloudDRIVE
Chose CloudDRIVE
Basically this cloud is much more practical than others, it is fast and have greater storage capacity, but in reality, almost all cloud applications have the same function.
Best Alternatives
AWS ConfigCloudDRIVE
Small Businesses
HashiCorp Terraform
HashiCorp Terraform
Score 8.5 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Ansible
Ansible
Score 9.2 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Ansible
Ansible
Score 9.2 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS ConfigCloudDRIVE
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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9.0
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Performance
9.6
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Ease of integration
6.2
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User Testimonials
AWS ConfigCloudDRIVE
Likelihood to Recommend
To keep track of changes and to answer many compliance issues this is a life-saver. AWS does a good job providing tools like this. Any AWS workload should be monitored with AWS Config. It even is great for troubleshooting and seeing who changed what at what time.
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It seems to be adequate for those companies that have a lot of information and have the need for many of their workers to integrate or can visualize their information quickly and at any time. It helps to save space on the company's servers and it is very easy to access, it is also easy to use and understand, and it is a scalable storage system
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Pros
  • It can help you define rules for provisioning and configuring of your AWS. We use it for this purpose.
  • It maintains configuration history. So you can use the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI to obtain details of past configurations
  • It gives you a configuration snapshot of all of your AWS resources and you can store it in AWS S3.
  • You can integrate it with AWS CloudTrail to correlate configuration changes to particular events in your account.
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  • Keeps my information safe in the cloud which is safer
  • I can view my information from any device at any place and time
  • With this application, I can transfer the data with ease
  • Automatic backup of all files is performed
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Cons
  • Vendor lock-in, no easy migration path for example if you want to move some workloads to Azure, you'd not be able to lift and shift.
  • Only at an AWS resource perspective - cannot do desired state configuration at an OS level (which makes sense but be good if you could even as a separate feature within AWS Config).
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  • Internet access is needed at all times
  • If many people manage the cloud they can make the mistake of deleting some files
  • Confusing legal coverage, there are countries that do not have data protection laws
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Performance
The performance has never been an issue for us, the dashboard gives us real-time monitoring and the alert sends us the notification within less than a minute of it happening, this applies to all of the monitored resources on AWS. However we can't (or probably haven't figured out how to) integrate with any other third party services, so we can't really evaluate how it integrates with other services
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Alternatives Considered
Despite the comparison it is not really apples to apples, the main purpose of the service is quite similar which is to monitor your application or services. In terms of AWS services, AWS Config provides more options to monitor and log your service on the infrastructure level which is very useful on that level and overall will give you more information about what is currently happening. Meanwhile PaperTrail is more suited to monitor and log your service and could only give you information on the application level.
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Basically this cloud is much more practical than others, it is fast and have greater storage capacity, but in reality, almost all cloud applications have the same function.
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Return on Investment
  • Enforcing audit requirements
  • Easy to set up alerting when there are rule breaches
  • Auto remediation reduces the manual policing of such breaches
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  • Reduction of expenses in the company
  • A lot of capacity to keep information
  • You can store any type of file
  • It could improve if you could see files without internet
  • Sometimes a little slow
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