We performed a comparison between AWS Config and HashiCorp Terraform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It provides control over all mobile devices that are being connected to the corporate network."
"Compliance and the policies that can be set are the most valuable features."
"It's easy to manage and easy to configure."
"The biggest thing for us is enforcing logins only from devices that are managed by Intune."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"Intune provides full endpoint visibility and IT control across device platforms. You can individualize it for your company with the Intune Company Portal app."
"It is very easy to use. It has a very easy interface."
"Its protection policies are most valuable. It protects mobile devices as well as individual apps. It is pretty scalable, and its documentation is also pretty good. It is also pretty straightforward to deploy."
"The initial setup is super easy, it takes like two minutes. Literally a one-click deployment."
"Installing the instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean."
"The solution is scalable and provides over 100 rules."
"This solution makes it easier to manage a multi-cloud environment and have your entire infrastructure as code."
"The most valuable feature is the support for different platforms like cloud, datacenters, VCS, databases, various storage types, and Kubernetes."
"The most valuable features of Terraform are leveraging public modules for EKS, KMS, and ECR."
"The concept of infrastructure as code is quite intriguing. We have an infrastructure in our code and a state file where we can verify whether something is changed when it was changed, and who changed it. When we use Terraform, these kinds of things fascinate us."
"We frequently need to create and replicate infrastructure from various environments like dev and QA. The QA resources need to be identical to those in the dev environment. With a Terraform script, we can replicate the same 50 in the dev environment to the testing environment. This is tedious to do manually, and Terraform speeds up the process."
"The valuable features of HashiCorp Terraform are the infrastructure can be written, shared, and collaborated on using code, which speeds up deployment. Additionally, bugs and issues can be fixed in the code and redeployed, making it less risky. It is a more efficient method compared to the traditional approach of writing scripts to set up infrastructure."
"It's very easy to automate functions on the cloud with HashiCorp Terraform. The commands are easy as well."
"The solution allows us to work faster with ease and to set up new environments and workspaces."
"There are a lot of small use cases where we realized that some technical solution was missing in Microsoft in comparison to other products. For example, it lacks something similar to sensing or location-based rules and configurations."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"The configuration could be better by consolidating options and making it simpler."
"Intune should be much more granular in terms of supporting more Android cellular devices."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"When Microsoft Intune is used with different android devices it does not always work as it is supposed to."
"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."
"The solution is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark."
"Community tech support could be a little better."
"I would like to see a short-term option for a short-term plan."
"If you are copying something from a well running machine to a remote machine, there are some issues with the current version, but it is acceptable."
"The user interface could be easier for non-technical people."
"I would want to see more programmatic capabilities implemented, such as if, else, and simple to manage things in terms of how I can use some programming functions to assist us to achieve more. I would like to have programming language-relevant features, to have programming language be the primary way."
"It would be nice if they could put our infrastructure on graphics or at least provide a map of our infrastructure."
"On occasion, I have noticed a number of bugs in this solution that have needed to be fixed."
"The price of the solution could improve."
AWS Config is ranked 15th in Configuration Management with 3 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. AWS Config is rated 9.0, while HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Config writes "A cloud solution to host application with smooth instance installation and performance upgrade". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". AWS Config is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, whereas HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, SaltStack, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and BMC TrueSight Server Automation. See our AWS Config vs. HashiCorp Terraform report.
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