We performed a comparison between AWS Systems Manager and Red Hat Satellite 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 Microsoft Windows Autopilot and Defender policies are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Remote Wipe and Autopilot is one of the best features."
"The most valuable features are the ones that make sure that the deployment is of a standard operating system and the Zero Touch deployment, which is very useful. This allows users to have an out of box experience."
"The most important thing for me is the autopilot feature."
"The ability to block and erase remote devices is valuable to us, especially when those devices are lost."
"The biggest benefits of Intune are the ability to push changes and the added security. When we moved forward with Defender, we onboarded all those machines automatically. That helps dramatically. For a while, we were left with machines that weren't protected. We could see where people had done things they shouldn't have done, and Defender saved our skins a few times. It didn't happen a lot, but it happened enough that it made us glad we made that decision."
"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."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"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."
"AWS provides Auto Scaling groups."
"The solution is user-friendly"
"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"The solution's ability to scale is good."
"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."
"Has a variety of automation options."
"The product is convenient to use."
"It has been a stable solution...It is a totally scalable solution."
"Fixing is the most valuable. When you deal with a lot of hardware and software and you have a lot of packages, fixing is a bit difficult. You need to track and pull up all such things, but Satellite makes this task easy. We have branches in other locations, and I can manage other branches by using Satellite Capsule, which is a great feature."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"The most valuable feature is the management of the distributed tool we use in the Red Hat Linux Servers."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you don't have to expose your mission-critical environment to the Internet. With the Satellite system in place, it acts as a barrier between your Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet."
"We only have major classifications for iOS and Android, but there are different brands that have different cycles of updates. If they can fine-tune it to make it more brand-specific, that would be even better."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"Lacks the ability to deploy more ways of management, managing devices and processing the policies."
"While Intune works perfectly well, the only potential downside is that the deployment could be a bit complex for some users."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"Integration with Mac devices requires some improvement."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"The fact that AWS Systems Manager takes time to complete the patching process, makes it an area where improvements are required."
"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 current challenge is that we can't pull any incidents from other accounts."
"Additional features can be added as per customer requirements."
"Lacks sufficient integrations."
"AWS does not have EKS cluster backup."
"The AWS UIs are not the most intuitive. Also, the usability needs room for improvement."
"It wasn't easy in the beginning, and some effort was required to work it out. I already had the product documentation, but it was not well organized. It wasn't easy to follow. There were a lot of documents here and there."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"The documentation could be better."
"It is difficult to update and maintain."
"The product's automation capabilities need enhancement."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The licensing is a bit expensive."
AWS Systems Manager is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 7 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. 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 Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". AWS Systems Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, AWS CloudFormation, BigFix and Chef, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, BigFix and vCenter Configuration Manager. See our AWS Systems Manager vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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