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AWS Systems Manager vs. Rackspace Fabric

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Systems Manager
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
AWS Systems Manager allows users to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. With it, users can create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments. Systems Manager allows users to select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch…
$0.20
Per Million Calls
Rackspace Fabric
Score 6.3 out of 10
N/A
A solution to bring cloud security, billing, operations and management together. Rackspace Fabric offers a single platform for automated multicloud management. Service includes access to Rackspace cloud technology expertise, and provides a unified interface management for all cloud resources across Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware, in a single, SaaS like operating environment.
$500
per month
Pricing
AWS Systems ManagerRackspace Fabric
Editions & Modules
AppConfig
$0.20
Per Million Calls
OpsCenter
$2.97
Per 1,000 Items
Minimum Service
$500.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Systems ManagerRackspace Fabric
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AWS Systems ManagerRackspace Fabric
Considered Both Products
AWS Systems Manager
Rackspace Fabric
Chose Rackspace Fabric
I've used Google/Amazons web services. They both make it easy to accidentally incur bills for things you didn't know were billable (or forgot about). Rackspace makes it extremely clear and doesn't lure you in with so many free trials that try to lock you in at a later time.
Steve Surya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Surya
Solutions Architect
Chose Rackspace Fabric
I also used Monitis as a monitoring service for our server. Rackspace'S monitoring sends immediate notifications while Monitis might take a couple minutes to understand if a service is down. Since Rackspace has their monitoring integrated with their support system, it helps us …
Features
AWS Systems ManagerRackspace Fabric
Cloud Management
Comparison of Cloud Management features of Product A and Product B
AWS Systems Manager
8.0
Ratings
8% below category average
Rackspace Fabric
-
Ratings
Cloud Management Security8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation and Orchestration7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost Management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Management Performance Monitoring9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Governance and Compliance9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Systems Integration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AWS Systems ManagerRackspace Fabric
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS Systems ManagerRackspace Fabric
Likelihood to Recommend
When you have a process running in aws that needs to copy files to group of instances as part of the process Installing software on a group of machines Adding Cloudwatch agent to instance.
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In the case of our non working hours, this service is excellent. Since the service auto creates a support ticket for the Rackspace team in case of a service being down, the support team can work on a support ticket and fix the issue for us. This is all automated and we don't even need to be involved most of times.
Steve Surya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Surya
Solutions Architect
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Pros
  • Copy files to a group of instance with particular tag
  • Enable CW agent and push metrics to CW
  • Easy to install software in a group of instances.
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  • Immediate email notifications: In case a service is down on our servers, we get immediate email notifications via rackspace cloud monitoring service. This helps us to know about the issues and we get in contact with support team to get it resolved.
  • Configuration on specific services: We can configure this monitoring on specific services. So for example if i don't want to get notified if MySQL concurrent users limit reached, then I do not need to configure this monitoring for MySQL. I can just use it whenever needed for defined services.
  • Group emails and technical contacts emails: The monitoring service can send email alerts to a number of email addresses. Primarily the ones who are added as a technical contact. It helps all people get notified about any issue.
  • Auto ticket management: Rackspace automatically creates a support ticket when a service is down and is notified by their monitoring service.
Steve Surya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Surya
Solutions Architect
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Cons
  • I would like to see the Search feature improved a bit more.
  • UI is little bit confusing initially
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  • It would be nice if there were more templates so that beginners could easily create complex monitors
  • I seemed to stumble upon the cloud monitoring service after having Rackspace for a while
Tyler Hildebrandt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered
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I've used Google/Amazons web services. They both make it easy to accidentally incur bills for things you didn't know were billable (or forgot about). Rackspace makes it extremely clear and doesn't lure you in with so many free trials that try to lock you in at a later time
Tyler Hildebrandt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced team's time spent on EC2 management
  • Patch management
  • Remote access
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  • I have overpaid in the past for services I didn't need
  • The steepish learning curve might slow things down at first
  • I have learned a lot using Rackspace Cloud Monitoring!
Tyler Hildebrandt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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