AWS Config vs. SolarWinds Server Configuration Manager (SCM)
| 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 |
 SolarWinds Server Configuration Manager (SCM) | N/A | N/A | SCM is designed to help detection of a server, application, or database configuration change quickly. If the server is down or performing poorly, the change data collected by SCM allows users to see if an application or server configuration change was the source of a performance issue or outage. •Alert and report deviations from the baseline in near real-time •See who’s making configuration changes on servers or applications •Compare current… | 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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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.8 | - |
| Performance | 9.6 | - |
| Ease of integration | 6.2 | - |