"Systems Manager has a feature where it analyzes the logs and gives us a performance overview in the form of a graph. We know when it's taking up more resources and when there are spikes, so we can predict the usability."
"Stable and scalable configuration management and automation tool. Installing it is easy. Its most valuable feature is its compliance, e.g. it's very good."
"We formerly used third-party products to analyze the log, give us information, and find bottlenecks. Systems Manager could provide more tools that conduct this analysis, so we don't have to do it ourselves."
"Support and pricing for Chef could be improved."
AWS Systems Manager is ranked 10th in Configuration Management with 1 review while Chef is ranked 16th in Configuration Management with 1 review. AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.0, while Chef is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of AWS Systems Manager writes "Root cause analysis helps us find source of unexpected spikes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Chef writes "Easy to install configuration management and automation tool with a good compliance feature". AWS Systems Manager is most compared with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, AWS OpsWorks, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite and BigFix, whereas Chef is most compared with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Jenkins, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BigFix.
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