Azure Automation vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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![]() Azure Automation | Score8.6 out of 10 | N/A | Azure Automation is a solution to automate frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks, and ensures consistent management for Windows and Linux. Users can write runbooks graphically in PowerShell or Python to integrate Azure services and other public systems required for deploying, configuring, and managing end-to-end processes. It can also be used to orchestrate across on-premises environments using a hybrid runbook worker to deliver on-demand services. Automations from… | 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 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 | 9.5 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.0 |
| Usability | - | 7.3 |
| Performance | - | 8.7 |
| Support Rating | - | 7.3 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.2 |
| Ease of integration | - | 8.6 |
