AWS Config Reviews

Name: AWS Config
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

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AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. With Config, you can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting.

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AWS Config is the #16 ranked solution in top Configuration Management solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Config an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. AWS Config is most commonly compared to Microsoft Intune: AWS Config vs Microsoft Intune. AWS Config is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 77% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Shashank N

Security Engineer-DevSecOps at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jan 16, 2024

It tracks configuration changes across all your AWS resources. Imagine it as a log of every tweak and setting alteration. This lets you build compliant policies based on desired configurations. For example, if a server gets exposed publicly, Config flags it as a deviation from your baseline…

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Trivikram Rajendreaprabhu

Senior security engeneer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 19, 2022

Our primary use case for this solution is identifying data through the resources feature. This solution allows us to track changes on the platform and create a history of changes. Additionally, we use the remediation feature to ensure the safety of our information and track security breaches or…

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Fendi

Sr Engineer at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 5, 2023

The reboot process for AWS instances could be improved. Microsoft Azure does not have this problem, so AWS could consider making their instances more robust. You would not need to reboot your instances frequently to replace the hardware and stuff. They can look for a better approach or mechanism to improve in the future. The concern is that you need to plan for the outage when you reboot an instance. You need to have a maintenance window where you can properly reboot the instance without affecting your application. When Amazon announces that you need to reboot an instance and are not ready, this becomes a problem.

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AWS Config market share

As of March 2024, the market share of AWS Config in the Configuration Management category stands at 0.6%, marking an increase of 13.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The initial setup is super easy, it takes like two minutes. Literally a one-click deployment."
"Installing the instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean."
"The solution is scalable and provides over 100 rules."

Room for Improvement

"There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark."
"The reboot process for AWS instances could be improved. Microsoft Azure does not have this problem, so AWS could consider making their instances more robust. You would not need to reboot your instances frequently to replace the hardware and stuff. They can look for a better approach or mechanism to improve in the future.The concern is that you need to plan for the outage when you reboot an instance. You need to have a maintenance window where you can properly reboot the instance without affecting your application. When Amazon announces that you need to reboot an instance and are not ready, this becomes a problem."
"The solution is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages."

Pricing

"It is a very expensive tool. AWS pricing for Config is not fixed and depends on your organization's size and complexity."
"The solution charges us per hour. There's no license."

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