AWS Config vs. Salt Project
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 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 |
 Salt | Score6.2 out of 10 | N/A | Built on Python, Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. Salt is used to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of infrastructure are operating in a consistent desired state. | N/A |
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| Editions & Modules | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | ||||||||||||||
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| 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. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| AWS Config | Salt | |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.8 | 8.0 |
| Performance | 9.6 | - |
| Support Rating | - | 8.2 |
| Ease of integration | 6.2 | - |