AWS Config vs. Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces

Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS Config	Score 7.0 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
Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces uses Kubernetes and containers to provide any member of the development or IT team with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment. It is the next stage of the former Codenvy.io, owned and supported by Red Hat since the May 2017 acquisition, which was presented as a customizable containerized developer workspace that handles provisioning, scaling, and stopping.	N/A

Pricing

AWS Config

Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS Config	Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level 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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Community Pulse
	AWS Config	Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces
Considered Both Products	AWS Config Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose AWS Config I have not assessed any other tools that do a similar function to AWS Config. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful?	Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	AWS Config	Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Terraform Score 8.5 out of 10	HashiCorp Terraform Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	AWS Config	Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	9.6 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS Config	Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We have a team of 500 people so it's most reliable and scalable if any new joinees. That way user's can directly create their own workspace and start working and share the work stack throughout development teams securely, to update and modify any upcoming events. The best thing about Red Hat Workspace is it's simple, with all Runtime libraries pre-installed, so no need to request a platform from Azure or any other platform provider just log in and start creating a workspace. It has version control so can easily import GIT projects can start work without worrying we don't have Java, Python or any other platform not installed just select the platform needed and start working. Incentivized jafar shareef Software Engineer Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Can improve UI like Visual studio so that VS user's can switch without any difficulty. Incentivized jafar shareef Software Engineer Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No need to request for any platform again and again. Incentivized jafar shareef Software Engineer Read full review
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