G2 Vendor Directory

AWS Config vs. ControlMonkey

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

MetricAWS Config

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

ControlMonkey

by ControlMonkey

Overall rating4.45.0
Review count5211
Ease of use8.910.0
Ease of setup8.89.8
Quality of support9.010.0
Meets requirements9.29.8
NPS54.166667100
Small Business29.4%0.0%
Mid-Market29.4%72.7%
Enterprise41.2%27.3%
Total page views142176
Total LLM citations87296

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

ControlMonkey

ControlMonkey is a Cloud Disaster Recovery and Configuration Resilience platform that helps organizations make cloud and SaaS configurations recoverable at enterprise scale. The platform enables DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, and SRE teams to continuously discover assets, create automated recovery points, track configuration changes, and restore known-good states after incidents. Unlike traditional backup solutions that focus on data and workloads, ControlMonkey protects the configurations required to operate modern cloud environments.

Pros