AWS Config pros and cons

4.5 out of 5

4 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

AWS Config is scalable, supporting over 100 rules and offering a one-click deployment feature. Initial setup is quick, often taking about two minutes. Installing instances and upgrades is smooth. However, AWS Config lacks support for writing programming languages and its built-in tools require improvement. Rebooting instances can be problematic, often necessitating a maintenance window to avoid application impact. Announced instance reboots can catch users unprepared.

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PROS

AWS Config is scalable and supports over 100 rules.

Installing instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean.

Initial setup is extremely easy and quick, taking only about two minutes.

Scalability of AWS Config rates highly, receiving a ten out of ten.

It offers a one-click deployment feature.

CONS

Missing a configuration that assists when writing programming languages.

Reboot process for AWS instances could be improved; Microsoft Azure does not have this problem.

Need to plan for an outage when rebooting an instance, requiring a maintenance window.

Built-in tools are not up to the mark, needing improvement.

Improvements are needed as per customer requirements.

AWS Config Pros review quotes

Fendi

Sr Engineer at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 5, 2023

Installing the instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean.

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Shashank N

Security Engineer-DevSecOps at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jan 16, 2024

The initial setup is super easy, it takes like two minutes. Literally a one-click deployment.

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Trivikram Rajendreaprabhu

Senior security engeneer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 19, 2022

The solution is scalable and provides over 100 rules.

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VISHWA S

DevOps Engineer at DataMoo.AI

Apr 27, 2024

The scalability is a ten out of ten.

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Fendi

Sr Engineer at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 5, 2023

The reboot process for AWS instances could be improved. Microsoft Azure does not have this problem, so AWS could consider making their instances more robust. You would not need to reboot your instances frequently to replace the hardware and stuff. They can look for a better approach or mechanism to improve in the future. The concern is that you need to plan for the outage when you reboot an instance. You need to have a maintenance window where you can properly reboot the instance without affecting your application. When Amazon announces that you need to reboot an instance and are not ready, this becomes a problem.

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Shashank N

Security Engineer-DevSecOps at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jan 16, 2024

There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark.

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Trivikram Rajendreaprabhu

Senior security engeneer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 19, 2022

The solution is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages.

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VISHWA S

DevOps Engineer at DataMoo.AI

Apr 27, 2024

Improvements are needed as per customer requirements.

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