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AWS Config vs. HashiCorp Terraform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Config

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    HashiCorp Terraform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ATerraform from HashiCorp is a cloud infrastructure automation tool that enables users to create, change, and improve production infrastructure, and it allows infrastructure to be expressed as code. It codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. It is available Open Source, and via Cloud and Self-Hosted editions.

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    AWS ConfigHashiCorp Terraform
    Editions & Modules
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    Open Source
    $0
    Team & Governance
    $20/user
    per user/per month
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    AWS ConfigHashiCorp Terraform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    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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    Features
    AWS ConfigHashiCorp Terraform
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of AWS Config and HashiCorp Terraform
    Feature
    AWS Config
    -
    Ratings
    HashiCorp Terraform
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    Infrastructure Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Automated Provisioning00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    Parallel Execution00 Ratings6.34 Ratings
    Node Management00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Reporting & Logging00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Version Control00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AWS ConfigHashiCorp Terraform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    8.4
    (30 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)