We performed a comparison between AWS Systems Manager and SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor 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."The best feature is that we don't need to worry about downtime. We don't need to worry about the network connections of our office or the virtual private network. Everything is being done through the internet. Using Intune Autopilot, we can configure and deploy everything to the devices."
"Microsoft Endpoint Manager is not expensive overall, especially for small environments."
"The dashboards, the security, and the customization capabilities work very well for us."
"The conditional access policies that we set up are very useful."
"For the price, the features included with Microsoft are appealing."
"With on-premises Active Directory, the main challenge was that we had no control when a user was working from home. We didn't know what exactly a user was doing and whether the AV was up to date or not. Intune provides better control of their machines."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"The solution is user-friendly"
"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."
"When we do the automation in the cloud, we use the SSM agent. This helps us to test our automation and documents, and monitor the cloud."
"Has a variety of automation options."
"The solution's ability to scale is good."
"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is version control. For example, if we began on the first of the month and we considered that as the configuration of the server, I could set that configuration as my baseline. On a daily basis, if there was the operations team that did, for example, server patching, the tool will maintain all levels of versions."
"The product’s alert feature is good. We receive notifications whenever some failures occur in the configuration."
"I expect Microsoft Intune to have more features in the cloud because there are two major functionalities that we need to be added. This is software metering and license management. These functionalities, for now, must be on-premise. For this purpose, we have set up a SQL Server and I hope that in near future this option will be in the cloud in Microsoft Intune."
"Microsoft Intune could enhance its patch management for various devices, ensuring regular updates and tracking of device privileges."
"Sometimes, updating a client policy is very difficult. This needs to be improved."
"The policies we had in SCCM and AD offered features that are missing from Microsoft Intune."
"Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities."
"It would be beneficial to have a more straightforward understanding of Intune's capabilities, presented in a simplified manner."
"It's only good for a Microsoft environment."
"Intune should be much more granular in terms of supporting more Android cellular devices."
"Lacks sufficient integrations."
"The current challenge is that we can't pull any incidents from other accounts."
"The fact that AWS Systems Manager takes time to complete the patching process, makes it an area where improvements are required."
"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."
"The AWS UIs are not the most intuitive. Also, the usability needs room for improvement."
"Additional features can be added as per customer requirements."
"In a feature release, they could enhance the reporting. However, we have not evaluated this part of the solution extensively."
"The product’s support services and licensing models need improvement."
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AWS Systems Manager is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 6 reviews while SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is ranked 17th in Configuration Management with 2 reviews. AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AWS Systems Manager writes "Offers a variety of automation options; simplifies governance and administration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor writes "Useful version control, high availability, and scales well". AWS Systems Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, AWS CloudFormation and BigFix, whereas SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is most compared with HashiCorp Terraform. See our AWS Systems Manager vs. SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor report.
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