AWS Config vs. OpsNow

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
OpsNow
Score 6.6 out of 10
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Bespin Global headquartered in Seoul offers OpsNow, a cloud management platform.N/A
Pricing
AWS ConfigOpsNow
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS ConfigOpsNow
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 ConfigOpsNow
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.
OpsNow
Chose OpsNow
Azure Monitor: Because we need to have complete control about resource consumption and also know how our systems are running.
Aris: Because is very important to have our flows in a single tool.
Bubble PPM: It's a good tool because is very easy manage our project with a intuitive …
Features
AWS ConfigOpsNow
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Config
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Ratings
OpsNow
9.6
Ratings
11% above category average
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Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Cost Management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Governance and Compliance00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Systems Integration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AWS ConfigOpsNow
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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9.0
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Performance
9.6
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Support Rating
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9.0
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Ease of integration
6.2
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User Testimonials
AWS ConfigOpsNow
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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We use OpsNow for Multi-Cloud Management (DXC and Azure) Clouds. This is the best scenario because in only one platform you can have all information about your resources such as your environments, Planning, designing, delivering, operating, and managing the cloud represents more than just infrastructure operations, project or service requests and error handling, to manage your Cloud IT from development to operation in its entirety.
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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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  • Hybrid Environment Management
  • Advanced Monitoring
  • Cost optimization
  • Analyze and Manage Resource Usage
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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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  • There isn't Live Online training
  • Insufficient languages, for now only available English
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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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Support Rating
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The general support is very good because is online and also its available during business hours. I think OpsNow doesn't have 10 because support 24/7 isn't available yet. I hope in the near future it will be available.
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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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Azure Monitor: Because we need to have complete control about resource consumption and also know how our systems are running. Aris: Because is very important to have our flows in a single tool. Bubble PPM: It's a good tool because is very easy manage our project with a intuitive UI.
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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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  • We save almost 1,000,000.00 USD in infrastructure
  • Now we have all processes centralized in a single tool
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