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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Config

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Web Services offers AWS Config, a service that provides monitoring and assessment of AWS resource configurations to support compliance auditing, change management and troubleshooting, with resource histories and comparison of historical configurations against planned configurations.N/A

    Cognizant Cloud360

    Score5 out of 10
    N/ACognizant offers Cloud360, a comprehensive cloud management platform.N/A
    Pricing
    AWS ConfigCognizant Cloud360
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS ConfigCognizant Cloud360
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsWith AWS Config, you are charged based on the number of configuration items recorded, the number of active AWS Config rule evaluations and the number of conformance pack evaluations in your account. A configuration item is a record of the configuration state of a resource in your AWS account. An AWS Config rule evaluation is a compliance state evaluation of a resource by an AWS Config rule in your AWS account, and a conformance pack evaluation is the evaluation of a resource by an AWS Config rule within the conformance pack.—
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    Features
    AWS ConfigCognizant Cloud360
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of AWS Config and Cognizant Cloud360
    Feature
    AWS Config
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    Ratings
    Cognizant Cloud360
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AWS ConfigCognizant Cloud360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    AWS ConfigCognizant Cloud360
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It's really good if your infrastructure services is all in AWS, that means everything could be audited and monitored using AWS config. You also can create alarms to notify you or your team about any changes on your AWS resources which is very useful to prevent abuse if you have a fairly large team. It's also very useful whenever some third party wants to audit your AWS resources, if you have a fairly comprehensive AWS config configured, the auditing process will be easy since they only need to look at your AWS config setup.
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    Cognizant
    Cognizant Cloud 360 is very well suited for cloud integration of modern, common software among users of a wide spectrum of proficiency levels. The user interface is well designed and intuitive, and all common software tools have existing implementation tools and intuitive platforms for cloud migration. Cognizant Cloud 360 is not as useful when most users are highly technically competent and use specialized, less common software tools that are to be migrated to the cloud platform. Cognizant is technically sound, but maybe not as much as some established competitors (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, etc) and also may not have familiarity with lesser-known software applications.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • The ability to track changes in AWS is paramount, AWS config allows you to do this
    • Allows the auditing of an AWS account
    • Can view history of an account that has AWS config enabled
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    Cognizant
    • Very good customer service team. Very responsive to inquiries, and willing to collaboratively develop solutions to software Platform integration challenges.
    • Very intuitive user interface. Layout for various tools and settings is well-conceived and implemented, and the software is ultimately very easy to navigate for even novice users.
    • Customizable resource library. The platform makes it easy to select tools that are needed without forcing you to subscribe to additional tools that are not needed.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • It's only AWS, no third party.
    • Not the most intuitive interface, but with a little getting used to it is OK.
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    Cognizant
    • Could improve in agility in the delivery life cycle. When customer demands change and abrupt changes in resources and configuration are required, the change order process is not as quick as desired.
    • Advanced technical competence and knowledge of a wide variety of specialized software applications is a bit lacking. Relative to some competitor software from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, or HP, Cognizant isn’t as technically inclined and ready to handle issues with less common software tools.
    • Not as forthcoming with status updates as some competitors. In cases of interruptions or upcoming updates, Cognizant doesn’t disclose timely and detailed information unless it is specifically requested by the user.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    Would rate lower for other workloads but for AWS workloads its simple to set up, cost effective and customisable. Primary use case is compliance from a governance perspective.
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    Cognizant
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    Cognizant
    Support is very timely and thorough in their responses to inquiries, and also is very willing to help in finding collaborative solutions to any technical challenges. Overall, the only negative is they may not be as equipped or ready to proactively handle some more customized requests as a more established competitor would be. This is more of a reflection of the software than the support team.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    I do not know or have used any other product in AWS cloud space that matches what AWS Config provides. We have some custom built monitoring and governance, however that is there because AWS Config does not provide it currently.
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    Cognizant
    Cognizant Cloud 360 has more of a modern look to it and most of the same functionality. I prefer the layout of Cognizant as I find it more intuitive for a variety of users, but Microsoft’s is also pretty well laid out. Microsoft is more established and has more experience in integrating a wide variety of applications, and so is more ready and equipped to handle less common application cloud integration.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Enforcing audit requirements
    • Easy to set up alerting when there are rule breaches
    • Auto remediation reduces the manual policing of such breaches
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    Cognizant
    • Cognizant Cloud 360 has saved on overall hardware costs, as many resources have been migrated to the cloud platform and local storage and hardware systems are no longer needed.
    • There was an initial period of negative return as the migration was occurring, as some applications were interrupted, which in turn interrupted the flow of projects and inhibited the timely allocation of resources.
    • Another positive return can be measured in time savings, as users can more easily access applications from the central cloud source versus various locally customized network locations.
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