AWS Config vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 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 |
 Ansible | Score9.2 out of 10 | N/A | The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it. | $5,000 per year |
| AWS Config | Ansible | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Editions & Modules | No answers on this topic |
| ||||||||||||||
| Offerings |
| |||||||||||||||
| 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. | — | ||||||||||||||
| More Pricing Information | ||||||||||||||||
| AWS Config | Ansible | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Configuration Management |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| AWS Config | Ansible | |
|---|---|---|
| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.8 | 9.5 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.0 |
| Usability | - | 7.3 |
| Performance | 9.6 | 8.7 |
| Support Rating | - | 7.3 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.2 |
| Ease of integration | 6.2 | 8.6 |