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AWS Config vs. VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Config
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Amazon 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
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Tanzu CloudHealth (formerly VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth) simplifies financial management, streamlines operations, and improves organizational collaboration across your multi-cloud environment.N/A
Pricing
AWS ConfigVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
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AWS ConfigVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
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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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Performance
9.6
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Ease of integration
6.2
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User Testimonials
AWS ConfigVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Likelihood to Recommend
To keep track of changes and to answer many compliance issues this is a life-saver. AWS does a good job providing tools like this. Any AWS workload should be monitored with AWS Config. It even is great for troubleshooting and seeing who changed what at what time.
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Pros
  • It can help you define rules for provisioning and configuring of your AWS. We use it for this purpose.
  • It maintains configuration history. So you can use the AWS Management Console, API, or CLI to obtain details of past configurations
  • It gives you a configuration snapshot of all of your AWS resources and you can store it in AWS S3.
  • You can integrate it with AWS CloudTrail to correlate configuration changes to particular events in your account.
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Cons
  • Vendor lock-in, no easy migration path for example if you want to move some workloads to Azure, you'd not be able to lift and shift.
  • Only at an AWS resource perspective - cannot do desired state configuration at an OS level (which makes sense but be good if you could even as a separate feature within AWS Config).
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Performance
The performance has never been an issue for us, the dashboard gives us real-time monitoring and the alert sends us the notification within less than a minute of it happening, this applies to all of the monitored resources on AWS. However we can't (or probably haven't figured out how to) integrate with any other third party services, so we can't really evaluate how it integrates with other services
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Alternatives Considered
Despite the comparison it is not really apples to apples, the main purpose of the service is quite similar which is to monitor your application or services. In terms of AWS services, AWS Config provides more options to monitor and log your service on the infrastructure level which is very useful on that level and overall will give you more information about what is currently happening. Meanwhile PaperTrail is more suited to monitor and log your service and could only give you information on the application level.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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Screenshot of Filter and refine out-of-the-box graphical and tabular reports to correlate datasets for analysis against your business objectives. Create custom dashboards across clouds and easily build detailed reports from scratch, known as CloudHealth FlexReports, across various dimensions to perform more granular analysis on cost, usage, and asset data.Screenshot of Configure budgets to visualize your expected costs for the year in advance and compare it with actual spend as the year progresses. Create as many overall and categorized budgets as you need to run your business, aligned to your company’s fiscal year. Proactively alert stakeholders when costs are forecasted to exceed pre-defined budgets. Toggle on forecasting for reports to predict future values based on historical data for the interval you define.Screenshot of Use CloudHealth’s dynamic policy engine to drive consistent operations and continuously monitor your environment. Quickly identify opportunities to proactively reduce spend, remediate risks, and streamline configuration. Get alerted when conditions deviate from your desired state and enable automated actions to execute changes in your environment—stop, start, resize, or terminate infrastructure—all at the frequency you define.Screenshot of Align cloud data to your business with CloudHealth FlexOrgs and benefit from greater control over user access, sharing, and delegation across multiple levels of organizational hierarchy. Further fine tune the platform by dynamically allocating assets to business groups known as CloudHealth Perspectives. View and analyze your cloud environment by project, application, line of business, cost center, and more, to drive accountability for cost and usage.