G2 Vendor Directory

AWS Config vs. AWS OpsWorks

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS Config

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS OpsWorks

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.0
Review count5220
Ease of use8.98.0
Ease of setup8.87.8
Quality of support9.08.3
Meets requirements9.28.5
NPS54.16666731.25
Small Business29.4%36.8%
Mid-Market29.4%31.6%
Enterprise41.2%31.6%
Total page views14297
Total LLM citations8714

AWS Config

AWS Config is a fully managed service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. It provides a detailed inventory of your AWS resources and their configurations, continuously monitors and records configuration changes, and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. This helps in maintaining compliance and security within your AWS environment.

Pros

  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Integration Support
  • Security Access
  • Automation
  • Ease of Use
  • Code Management

AWS OpsWorks

AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet, which are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers.

Pros