We performed a comparison between AWS Systems Manager and HashiCorp Terraform 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 ability to switch between Affinity and non-Affinity enrollment is great."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"The product has eased the deployment of Microsoft apps to the devices. We can manage it properly. We can control it and push the updates. Another company helped us with the deployment. However, we can do it internally."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"One of the biggest advantages of Microsoft Intune is that it brings the management of Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and even Linux under a single pane of glass."
"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"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."
"The solution is user-friendly"
"The solution's ability to scale is good."
"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."
"Has a variety of automation options."
"One of the most valuable features is that it offers the ability to create a VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and VPN connectivity to the VPC can be automated without having to do it manually."
"HashiCorp Terraform is highly stable."
"I like the function that shows me a preview of what is happening in the infrastructure."
"The state file is the most beneficial aspect of HashiCorp Terraform. It enables the retrieval and utilization of a previous state to build upon. This feature is particularly important since it allows for the identification of changes from the previous state, making the state file a critical component of the process."
"It is a stable solution."
"Can be used across multiple cloud providers and multiple platforms."
"It is one of the best things because now we have everything automated with Terraform. We didn't have an outage for the last three years because everything is written in a code, and every change we have made is recorded. If we didn't have a tool like Terraform, it would be extremely complex to achieve this level of maturity with infrastructure."
"The state backend, automated describe functionality, modular structures, and variablization using templates are most valuable."
"It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies."
"The pricing can be expensive if you are not combining it with other products."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"The mobile and tablet-based versions need improvement because they are not completely user-friendly, compared to the web version. Also, data synchronization with our existing asset manager, the synchronization between multiple assets and multiple devices, takes a lot of time due to the security scanning. It should be reduced."
"They need to add more group policies. Intune currently does not have many group policies that you can deploy. Its reporting, which is very limited at the moment, also needs improvement. It will be great if they can add report customization. Its stability needs to be improved. Sometimes, when you register a device in Intune, it doesn't show up instantly on the engine portal on the admin side. They need to provide better support for complicated issues. They also have a long turnaround time."
"From a new user's perspective, it may be a little overwhelming because there are quite a few things to look at in the console, however, once you are sort of acclimated and are familiar with your core functions, it's fairly simple and straightforward."
"I would like to see easier pushdowns. Currently, we have to package our own software and then push it. Intune can make that way easier and integrate applications, such as Zoom and Adobe Acrobat, that are used by a lot of enterprise or corporate organizations."
"Microsoft Intune has a latency response time issue. The latency has room for improvement."
"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 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 fact that AWS Systems Manager takes time to complete the patching process, makes it an area where improvements are required."
"The current challenge is that we can't pull any incidents from other accounts."
"The solution is missing a lot of properties for specific resources."
"Terraform could create more examples in the documentation."
"With cloud providers always adding new resource types, there are certain resources that Terraform does not support. It would be great if it could support those resources as well."
"Community tech support could be a little better."
"Terraform doesn't support Artifactory as a backend."
"There is always room for improvement somewhere. I don't know everything about the product."
"The product must improve DevOps features."
"It should have a more object-oriented approach like different coding languages."
AWS Systems Manager is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 6 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.2, while HashiCorp Terraform 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 HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". AWS Systems Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, AWS CloudFormation and BigFix, whereas HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, SaltStack, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and BMC TrueSight Server Automation. See our AWS Systems Manager vs. HashiCorp Terraform report.
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