Action1 vs. AWS CodeDeploy

For small teams having to deal with significant ammount of devices, I can't express how useful Action1 is. With very small effort, you can easily keep track of your devices, keep them up to date, deploy new software to your users, create recurring reports/alerts and so on. Initially, the 100 endpoints for free was also a nice touch. Now, even better since they increased to 200. For the forseeable future, I have not to worry about costs and still can't believe it's a full solution for free, not those freeware stuff where what you really desire is behind a cost.

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For greenfield projects built on AWS there are very few reasons why not to choose AWS CodeDeploy. It works out of the box and integrates seamlessly into your cloud environment. If you plan to migrate your existing legacy builds away e.g. from Jenkins, you may need to reserve a substantial amount of time for that and the benefits gained may not be worth the effort.

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• Provide a friendly and easy-to-use interface to manage all my endpoints
• Provide automated patch management that can be placed on a schedule. Patch approval is easy and intuitive
• Scan for available software updates and readily report critical updates
• Uploading and installing software via the Action1 console is very easy to use
• The app deployment works very well and fast

• Simplifies checking the status of code branches
• Streamlines the deployment process
• Integrates into our Slack workflow for reserving environments

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• Lots of times Action1 will identify a program that needs to be patched, but then not really have a path laid out to get that done...so they just remain as they are, but are tagged as such.
• Really wants to replace the windows update mechanism. Resists (or did at least) you if you try to keep updates as they are and update occasionally from Action1
• Could develop the scripts section a bit more, looked pretty sparse last time I checked it out.

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• Would Love to have more traceability when troubleshooting

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Price, functionality, and continuous improvement of the product.

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Agent deployment is simple (and silent) - once that is done, you're good to go. Everything is simple, centralized and very easy to work with. There isn't one aspect of this platform that requires crawling over forums and Google, it just works!

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Here is where AWS as a whole stepped up big. The UI is more intuitive and easy to use. The separation is clear, and the guides are abundant. They still need to create starter tutorials for newcomers so we don't lose much time learning/teaching others. Having someone with basic knowledge and examples where they can gain experience will make it better.

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I never contacted support services

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very easy to start using it.

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After looking at different solutions, Action1 [Cloud Remote Monitoring and Management Solution] was the perfect fit for us that delivered all of the features we wanted without being as costly as some of the others alternatives we've looked at. There was no minimum endpoint count and they even offer up to 50 endpoints for free, which is really great for a small organization like us to help us lower our starting costs and still allows us to grow at our pace without having to commit to a defined amount of endpoints to start.

Both have the same concept, but AWS has gained some ground over Google by creating cheaper services, and the fact they have servers wherever there is an Amazon makes the speed to access the platform faster and the jumps in the network also quicker. GCP has its global advantage because it is extremely easy to use, but overall, AWS has more to offer as long as you know it.

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• Saved hours per week on patching and able to ensure a 100% patching success rate.
• Able to create custom alerting on potential problems as well as able to create some automation to automatically address problems.
• Improved support to our remote locations and users.
• Custom deployments allow us to have a mechanism to deploy custom applications we build as well as other third party applications we need to distribute.

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• Definite positive impact
• This tool provides automate features which reduce the dev ops work load
• This tool works in many different languages so we can have a generic setup code for different languages
• No negative impact

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