We performed a comparison between AWS Systems Manager 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 works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"The most important thing for me is the autopilot feature."
"Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"It's not working perfectly, but Microsoft's Autopilot offers great visibility into automated deployment solutions."
"We are a remote company, and the product helps us manage the global endpoints. It helps us natively manage the endpoints in the cloud from anywhere."
"It is a very stable and scalable cloud-only solution."
"The most valuable feature of Intune is the central dashboard for compliance and policy management."
"For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"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."
"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"The solution's ability to scale is good."
"AWS provides Auto Scaling groups."
"The solution is user-friendly"
"Has a variety of automation options."
"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."
"It is the customization of Terraform's modules that I find most valuable."
"The solution allows us to work faster with ease and to set up new environments and workspaces."
"It's very easy to automate functions on the cloud with HashiCorp Terraform. The commands are easy as well."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the modules it offers."
"It is one of the best things because now we have everything automated with Terraform. We didn't have an outage for the last three years because everything is written in a code, and every change we have made is recorded. If we didn't have a tool like Terraform, it would be extremely complex to achieve this level of maturity with infrastructure."
"This solution is a fast and secure way to provision infrastructure."
"HashiCorp Terraform is highly stable."
"One of the most valuable features is that it offers the ability to create a VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and VPN connectivity to the VPC can be automated without having to do it manually."
"No option to do end-to-en macOS management. Slow implementation of policies."
"One area for improvement is app deployment. Another is the Windows update rollout. If you're rolling out an object to a device that's offline, Intune stops trying to reach this device after it sits idle for a bit. We are forced to find a workaround that could help manage that."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"What would make this product better is adding more security policies and features in the next upgrade."
"Intune should be much more granular in terms of supporting more Android cellular devices."
"The pricing can be expensive if you are not combining it with other products."
"The feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"Lacks sufficient integrations."
"Additional features can be added as per customer requirements."
"The AWS UIs are not the most intuitive. Also, the usability needs room for improvement."
"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 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."
"AWS does not have EKS cluster backup."
"Some areas where Terraform could improve would be challenges in managing sensitive information, especially when dealing with secret files or credentials."
"The syntax is a bit difficult, and it would great if it could be easier."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"Terraform doesn't support Artifactory as a backend."
"I still struggle a bit when configuring VPNs when we have multiple rules. If we have five or six virtual private clouds and we have to give rights between those multiple VPCs, we can have big problems. I think it was a learning curve and then we improved it."
"I would like to see a short-term option for a short-term plan."
"HashiCorp Terraform could improve the integration with the VCloud Director. When we manage the VCloud Director we end up wasting our time when creating virtual machines. HashiCorp Terraform knows about these issues and I think there might be a workaround but they should incorporate the fix in an upcoming release."
"The user interface could be easier for non-technical people."
AWS Systems Manager is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 7 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.0, while HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6. 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 HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". AWS Systems Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, AWS CloudFormation and BigFix, 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 Systems Manager vs. HashiCorp Terraform report.
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