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Pros

  • Amazing for database management and easy to use.

  • Like all Amazon services, it integrates seamlessly into the AWS ecosystem and allows for accurate control of compliance with established business rules.

  • The overall experience with AWS config is excellent and the product is very supportive for all the business processes to be automated and have automations run on schedule to solve business problems.

  • It's is best software for shopping and easy way to shopping and it's has more than millions of product.

Cons

  • A little difficult to understand in the configuration, very difficult to think of doing it yourself without a thorough study of the instrument.

  • Some time the Config Rules are hard to comprehend and arrange. They could be made simple or have GUI to arrange them.

  • It is a bit more difficult than using other cloud products.

  • Since most of the commands are unaware it takes time for new users to get used to it.

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johan M. avatar
johan M.
licenciado en enfermería
Alternative Medicine, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 11, 2022

"Amazing for database management and easy to use"

Pros: AWS setup was extremely helpful throughout managing our online project as well as keeping everything neat and centralized.

Cons: It can be a bit difficult at first to get used to, the documentation is so detailed, otherwise I like everything.

Thierno Ousmane D.
Loans manager
Banking, 501-1,000 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
February 19, 2023

"Unlock the power of the cloud with AWS: A secure, scalable and flexible computing."

Overall: Overall, AWS is a cloud platform with plenty of services and features that can meet the needs of different organizations. For companies looking to move their IT operations to the cloud, its scalability, flexibility, and ease of use make it an attractive option. I will confidently suggest you this product.

Pros: 1. Scalability: Businesses can easily adjust resources as their needs change because of the extremely scalable infrastructure offered by AWS;2. Wide range of services:  AWS offers a wide range of services, including compute, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, security, and more. It is a one-stop-shop for all your cloud computing needs;3. Cost-effectiveness:  Users can identify and reduce unnecessary spending with cost optimization tools from AWS.

Cons: Users who are new to cloud computing can have a learning curve, as the service has a wide range of features and options that can be overwhelming at first. However, your staff should be able to learn quickly.

Switched From: Microsoft Azure
Reasons for Switching to AWS Config: AWS is a market leader in the cloud computing industry and has a long track record of success. I wanted to try it out.
Jack D.
President
Environmental Services, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
5/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
May 16, 2022

"Best price compared to other options."

Pros: It has so many features to work with and has good video support.

Cons: It does require a bit of a learning curve to understand how to use it.

Santosh K.
Sr Software Developer
Real Estate, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
May 16, 2022

"Excellent Cloud Tool - AWS"

Overall: - The overall experience with AWS config is excellent and the product is very supportive for all the business processes to be automated and have automations run on schedule to solve business problems.

Pros: - The most important feature is, the tool is more configurable to achieve a lot of business automations and processes - The tool has a lot of capabilities that the developers can utilize and customize according to the specific set of use-case - The UI is more intuitive and is very easy to navigate around the application and make necessary implementations

Cons: - The pricing can be more affordable when compared to the available other tools in the market - The support can be more quicker for the issues raised by the customers - The product team can build more in-built features and integrations in the system, that way the customer can have less developer down time and can have the go-live date quicker than now.

Reasons for Choosing AWS Config: - The pricing of the tool was affordable when compared to the other products in the market. - The OOB features are wide-range when compared to the other products in the market. - The support was very helpful and supportive for building the application from scratch and GA
Verified Reviewer
Technology specialist
Automotive, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
March 21, 2022

"We can secure Aws could infra through network ACL"

Pros: There are 2 feature which I like most 1. Security group. 2. Network Access control list.

Cons: Aws could infra is fully secure channel and I think, there is not any negative points.

Alternatives Considered: Microsoft Azure
Switched From: Microsoft Azure
Parth P. avatar
Parth P.
DevOps Engineer
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 4, 2021

"AWS Monitoring Infrastructure"

Pros: Quicker and more straightforward review interaction of your AWS administrations arrangement Keeping history of changes implies its simple to detect any issues that happen at whatever point any progressions occurred It gives you a setup depiction of all of your AWS assets and you can store it in AWS S3. You can coordinate it with AWS CloudTrail to correspond arrangement changes to specific occasions in your record.

Cons: Some time the Config Rules are hard to comprehend and arrange. They could be made simple or have GUI to arrange them. I realize it is hard to construct yet that would be a decent success. Not the most instinctive interface, but rather with a little becoming acclimated to it is OK.

Verified Reviewer
Sr. Systems Admin
Education Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
June 17, 2021

"Config for you and Config for me"

Overall: Using config for an audit log and compliance manager has really given us a peace of mind managing a large number of accounts. We dont really have to worry about something going wrong because we can auto remediate or at least alert on it.

Pros: Using AWS config can be a daunting task as there are essentially endless things it can be used for to keep track of log ins to changes in ec2 tags, but if you set up the correct reporting and alerting using other native AWS tooling you'll have an audit trail and set of compliant resources in your account.

Cons: I would say it is hard to get started from the ground level, but aws provides extensive white papers, examples, videos, and training to get you running at full speed without too much effort.

Aaron A. avatar
Aaron A.
Pastor - IT
Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
April 1, 2022

"Best Native Tool for Tracking Configuration Changes"

Overall: Excellent.

Pros: It is built into AWS and supports most services natively. There is no setup and no cost. I use it whenever I need to see if a service or asset is compliant with our needs or to see changes over time to assets.

Cons: It does not show the names of individual assets, only the AWS ID. This is annoying when trying to find a specific item in the console.

Verified Reviewer
Senior Dev
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
May 17, 2023

"A complete look to your settings"

Pros: It's really useful if you use all asw world, you can take a look of your settings and take advantage of them

Cons: I think it's a good product maybe it could be improved making more integration of interfaces in aws console

Verified Reviewer
Social Media Coordinator & Content Editor
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
2.0
Customer Service
3.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
5/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
May 14, 2022

"Best Tool for Deep Learning"

Pros: As a product manager, my AWS Config journey is makes me better to understand my product and its working environment. Helped me to learned metadata structure, configurations and relationships over events.

Cons: Learning curve is huge if you are not a technical user. Documentation really helps but also you gonna need an engineer to walkthrough with you. Simplified version for non-tech users should be handy.

Verified Reviewer
CMO
Internet, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
June 13, 2022

"Perfecto para auditorias"

Pros: Nos ayuda a entender el uso y configuración de los recursos de nuestro servidor en aws, muy importante tambien para la parte compliance.

Cons: Una solución perfecta, pero el uso de aws es muy costoso por lo que estamos considerando cambiar de servidores

Alternatives Considered: DigitalOcean
Reasons for Switching to AWS Config: Buscabamos mejorar el rendimiento y velocidad del site.
Gautam S.
Owner
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
July 22, 2021

"Excellent product"

Pros: I can use this product safe and secure. Can excess from any where

Cons: Best product of the market. Safe secure user friendly. Cost effective.

Prasanjit M.
Business
Animation, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 29, 2020

"Best and easy way to shopping"

Pros: It's is best software for shopping and easy way to shopping and it's has more than millions of product

Cons: It's has very easy way to get any thing in site in home

Vanessa P. avatar
Vanessa P.
Software Engineer
Government Relations, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 25, 2021

"Best for cloud database management "

Overall: Great

Pros: Easy, fast, reliable and great to configure.

Cons: It is a bit more difficult than using other cloud products. UX can get better.

vikas A.
IT HEAD
Non-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
7/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
July 15, 2021

"Beauty of AWS"

Pros: Reports over aws are amazing and much easier as compared with competition

Cons: Little bit typical to integrate with in-house developed software

Daniele C. avatar
Daniele C.
ICT Infrastructure specialist
Real Estate, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 31, 2022

"A usefull platfrom"

Pros: When using AWS instances this platform is fundamental, it covers all necessities and can be integrated with a lot of reporting tools to complement the monitoring process

Cons: a lot of submenues can be confusing for first time users

Rimjhim B.
Software Developer
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
7/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
April 26, 2021

"maintaining our cloud systems made easy with AWS config"

Overall: I am finding little difficulty in running scripts for configuring instances in our system store in cloud.

Pros: We are using AWS cloud config and it is quiet helpful with managing our systems and their instances..

Cons: Since most of the commands are unaware it takes time for new users to get used to it. Documentation can be improved with more example usages.

Paolo C. avatar
Paolo C.
Software Engineer
Computer Software, Self-employed
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 24, 2021

"A nice way to store configuration for cloud devops"

Pros: I like the simplicity of this product: centralize the configuration in it and use it traverseley for most of AWS services

Cons: So far I didn't find anything which I dislike

Molly H.
Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Features
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
May 14, 2022

"Broad view of your services"

Pros: I like that AWS config allows you to view the configuration of your resources in one place. Configuration history is a very useful tool for tracking configuration changes over time, and you can even compare to your AWS CloudTrail logs to see which users are changing config in your accounts.

Cons: There is a steep learning curve for using this software. AWS provides training, youtube videos, tutorials etc, so I would recommend starting there to lessen the incline of this curve.

Sibi M.
Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
3.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
July 27, 2021

"Easy to use"

Pros: The integration with the business was very easy.

Cons: Nothing I can think of. This is the product I was looking for.

Giuseppe N. avatar
Giuseppe N.
Software engineer manager
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
June 7, 2022

"Greate tool to audit and check policies"

Pros: Like all Amazon services, it integrates seamlessly into the AWS ecosystem and allows for accurate control of compliance with established business rules.

Cons: A little difficult to understand in the configuration, very difficult to think of doing it yourself without a thorough study of the instrument.