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AWS Config vs. IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)

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

MetricAWS Config

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)

by HashiCorp

Overall rating4.44.6
Review count52130
Ease of use8.98.9
Ease of setup8.89.0
Quality of support9.08.6
Meets requirements9.29.2
NPS54.16666778.4
Small Business29.4%34.4%
Mid-Market29.4%32.8%
Enterprise41.2%32.8%
Total page views142778
Total LLM citations871,933

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

IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)

IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform) is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. You can then use a consistent workflow to provision and manage all of your infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. Terraform can manage low-level components like compute, storage, and networking resources, as well as high-level components like DNS entries and SaaS features.

Pros

  • Efficiency
  • Ease of Use
  • Automation
  • Automation Efficiency
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Useful