We performed a comparison between AWS Systems Manager and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features in Microsoft Intune for me are application deployment, Defender deployment, and asset management."
"Users can make screenshots, and devices only need the minimal version of iOS."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Its security is most valuable. It gives us a way to secure devices, not only those that are steady. We do have a few tablets and other devices, and it is a way for us to secure these devices and manage them. We know they're out there and what's their status. We can manage their life cycle and verify that they're updated properly."
"The overall user experience is quite nice. I have no complaints from end users regarding their devices enrolled in Intune."
"When we do the automation in the cloud, we use the SSM agent. This helps us to test our automation and documents, and monitor the cloud."
"Systems Manager has a feature where it analyzes the logs and gives us a performance overview in the form of a graph. We know when it's taking up more resources and when there are spikes, so we can predict the usability."
"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"Has a variety of automation options."
"The solution's ability to scale is good."
"The solution is user-friendly"
"AWS provides Auto Scaling groups."
"Ansible Galaxy is helpful for roles and Git Submodules: No dependency in managing playbooks. Also, fact caching in redis for host/role grp information speeds up execution. Finally, variable management is easy."
"Ansible Tower offers use a UI where we can see all the pushes that have gone into the server."
"It has improved our organization through provisioning and security hardening. When we do get a new VM, we have been able to bring on a provisioned machine in less than a day. This morning alone, I provisioned two machines within an hour. I am talking about hardening, installing antivirus software on it, and creating user accounts because the Playbooks were predesigned. From the time we got the servers to the actual hand-off, it takes less than an hour. We are talking about having the servers actually authenticate Red Hat Satellites and run the yum updates. All of that can be done within an hour."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"The automation is the most valuable feature."
"The most useful features are the playbooks. We can develop our playbooks and simplify them doing something like a cross platform."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"The add-ons must be integrated into the solution."
"Reporting in Microsoft solutions is pathetic. With Intune, I'm getting a free inventory tool, but I don't get a reporting tool. When I go to Intune, I can see one machine's entire data in terms of the hardware and the software running on it, but I cannot generate a report for all the machines in the organization. The reporting is the only feature holding back the functionality that is already there."
"We need the capabilities of the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) to be enhanced through Intune instead of Azure."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"The reporting is subpar. That's the only issue we have with Intune. We use another solution for that purpose."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"Intune lags all of its competitors in terms of report generation."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"We formerly used third-party products to analyze the log, give us information, and find bottlenecks. Systems Manager could provide more tools that conduct this analysis, so we don't have to do it ourselves."
"The fact that AWS Systems Manager takes time to complete the patching process, makes it an area where improvements are required."
"AWS does not have EKS cluster backup."
"The AWS UIs are not the most intuitive. Also, the usability needs room for improvement."
"Lacks sufficient integrations."
"Additional features can be added as per customer requirements."
"The current challenge is that we can't pull any incidents from other accounts."
"The communication on it is not probably where it could be. We could use some real life examples where we could point customers to them and say, "This is what you are trying to do. If you follow these steps, it would at least get you started a bit quicker.""
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"Accessibility. Ansible uses a CLI by default. Those accustomed to it can find their way and adopt the YAML files easily over time. But, some users are more comfortable using UIs..."
"What we need is model-driven, declarative software infrastructure management. However, things tend to break with new versions, requiring a lot of work to fix…The focus should be on improving the support for Ansible in the area of AI coding."
"The product could do a better job at building infrastructure."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"Networking needs to be improved."
"Documentation could be improved. Many times, if I'm looking for something, I have to Google it in a lot of places, then figure out what the best approach will be. There are some best practices documents, but they don't give you the information."
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AWS Systems Manager is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 7 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Systems Manager writes "Offers a variety of automation options; simplifies governance and administration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". AWS Systems Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Satellite, AWS CloudFormation, BigFix and Chef, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Control-M. See our AWS Systems Manager vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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