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AWS Config vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Red Hat are both solutions in the Configuration Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0, while Red Hat is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.8. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.3% mindshare in CM, compared to Red Hat’s 11.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 1, 2026

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and AWS Config compete in the IT automation and cloud configuration management category. Based on the comparison, AWS Config seems to have the upper hand in cloud-native environments due to its robust compliance features, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform excels in broader system management and scalability.

Features:Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers automation capabilities, flexibility, and integration with diverse IT environments. It allows users to automate across various platforms and provides a wide range of modules for different tasks. Ansible's agentless architecture makes it unique and easy to deploy. AWS Config focuses on proactive monitoring, automatic compliance assessment, and real-time configuration tracking. It ensures that cloud resources are continuously monitored and compliant with configurations, making it vital for organizations heavily relying on AWS.

Room for Improvement:Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform could enhance its cloud-native features to match the robust compliance capabilities of AWS Config. Improvement in user interface and integration with more cloud-specific services could benefit users. AWS Config could expand its support for non-AWS environments and improve user-perceived navigation complexity. Simplifying rule management and providing more intuitive configuration options would enhance its usability for broader IT environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers straightforward on-premise deployment and comprehensive support through its ecosystem. Its agentless design simplifies installation. AWS Config integrates seamlessly within AWS services, facilitating efficient cloud-native deployments. It provides extensive documentation and infrastructure support, but users indicate a preference for more interactive customer service, a strength noted in Red Hat's offerings.

Pricing and ROI:Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform involves initial setup investments yielding long-term savings via automation efficiency. It provides sustainable returns through versatile automation offerings despite appearing costlier initially. AWS Config operates on a pay-as-you-go basis, advantageous for organizations already invested in AWS infrastructure, offering scalability with lower incremental costs for existing AWS users.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Intune
Sponsored
Ranking in Configuration Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
334
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (2nd), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (1st), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (1st)
AWS Config
Ranking in Configuration Management
18th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat Ansible Automation ...
Ranking in Configuration Management
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Network Automation (1st), AWS Pro Service Providers (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Configuration Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 6.9%, down from 10.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Config is 2.3%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is 11.9%, down from 18.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform11.9%
Microsoft Intune6.9%
AWS Config2.3%
Other78.9%
Configuration Management
 

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AkashKamble - PeerSpot reviewer
AkashKamble
Sr MacOS specialist engineer at Cyber24
Enables management of multiple operating systems with a single license
The best feature is that it's a Microsoft product, so if anything goes wrong, we get quick support for anything required. Remote system functionality allows us to sit anywhere and take control of any device via remote management. We can enhance security for clients' laptops with built-in Microsoft Defender, which is available with the Microsoft Intune license. We use it for reporting purposes through endpoint analytics. When pushing scripting, there are two types available: remediation script and reservation script. Through endpoint analytics, you can push defender policies to clients. It helps with reporting, inventory updates, and monitoring tenant status health.
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Dineshkumar Thulasiraman - PeerSpot reviewer
Dineshkumar Thulasiraman
Cloud Engineer at cloudifyops
Useful for vulnerability scanning and data encryption
AWS Config's dashboard improved our company's security as it helps with the vulnerability scanning of resources. AWS Config integrates with the existing security infrastructure of our company, and it is an easy process that is not at all complicated. AWS Config is a security product. The tool protects its users' resources and data from unauthorized access, security breaches, and threats. The product helps with data encryption. You can have your data on AWS KMS, which helps with data encryption. For areas like SSL/TLS encryption, the tool offers data protection between AWS services and endpoints. As I need to learn the components of the product, I rate the overall tool a seven out of ten.
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Manas Kashyap - PeerSpot reviewer
Manas Kashyap
DevOps Engineer at Elevenxcapital
Automation has transformed server patching and has reduced months of work to minutes
The best features that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers is that it does not require any additional resources inside the servers. Python is the only requirement, and since Python is already present inside the servers, we can run it from our location and it automatically deploys things and does the work for us. The minimal requirements and easy deployment have definitely impacted my daily work and my team's efficiency. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is one of the best features that we depend on. We have evaluated other options, but Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform was the best choice because it has saved us a tremendous amount of time. We do not need to manually intervene in the servers or install third-party software to maintain these things. It is very easy to write playbooks for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Ansible Galaxy contains many playbooks that are readily available and ready to be used. It is highly configurable with Jinja templating, making it easy to maintain. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has positively impacted my organization. Previously, we needed to go into the servers and maintain them manually, which used to take a lot of time. For 200 to 300 servers, the maintenance took about one to two months. New patches would arrive and we would have to repeat the process. Now, it is a one-night work or a 10 to 15 minutes task. We write a playbook, maintain an inventory, and roll out the updates and it starts working for us. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform uses conditional clauses and has rollback options, functioning like a standard coding language that is simple to use. There is definitely a reduction in errors with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform because we have playbooks written with all the necessary clauses and rollback options. Manual work automatically creates more errors, whereas in automation, we have written sets that we do not forget every time we run it. We have protected written sets that we execute consistently.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types, we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager(MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company detail on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."
"It provides control over all mobile devices that are being connected to the corporate network."
"Configuration profiles, remediation, scripts, and auto-pilot features are very good."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"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."
"I haven't used other mobile device management solutions, but compared to SCCM, we eliminate a lot of on-premises infrastructure and maintenance by using Intune."
"Microsoft Intune helps us avoid issuing everyone company-owned devices. We provide a stipend, allowing users to bring their own devices. This approach gives us leverage against other MSPs. It also enhances collaboration because clients already covered by specific licensing can optimize their usage of Microsoft Intune."
"Microsoft Intune is best for Windows devices and security in Office 365 and Microsoft-related enterprise environments. It's a nice platform for endpoint management."
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"AWS Config's dashboard improved our company's security as it helps with the vulnerability scanning of resources."
"Installing the instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean."
"The solution is scalable and provides over 100 rules."
"The scalability is a ten out of ten."
"The tool protects its users' resources and data from unauthorized access, security breaches, and threats."
"The initial setup is super easy, it takes like two minutes. Literally a one-click deployment."
"The solution is very simple to use."
"RBAC is great around Organizations and I can use that backend as our lab. Ingesting stuff into the JSON logs, into any sort of logging collector; it works with Splunk and there are other collectors as well. It supports Sumo and that helps, I can go create reports in Sumo Logic. Workflows are an interesting feature. I can collect a lot of templates and create a workflow out of them."
"Its checking and validating ensures our packages are properly patched."
"Agentless architecture, relying on SSH only."
"Saved time as well as helped support compliance and standards."
"The most valuable feature of Ansible is repeatability because when you're working at the DoD, you want things to be cookie-cutter and replicable."
"The most useful features are the playbooks; we can develop our playbooks and simplify them, doing something like a cross platform."
"The automation capabilities streamline deployment processes, providing reliability and reducing manual intervention and errors."
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Cons

"Reliability is something that I feel there is a tad bit of concern. The only point is that we need to sync multiple times to get something pushed through."
"China blocks Google and Google Play Store, which makes installation challenging. Microsoft Intune is a company software, which has to be installed to the app portal or Microsoft Software Center."
"Historically, Group Policy has simplified the management of various items, such as printer and drive mappings and while Intune offers workarounds, it lacks native support for these functionalities."
"I also hope the cost of Remote Help will decrease because it's a much-needed Intune function."
"For an existing customer who has an SCCM, it would need to be upgraded to an MECM first before I can introduce Microsoft Intune."
"The reporting part needs improvement, and it would be beneficial if it could integrate with third-party tools instead of just Power BI."
"Integrating certain group policies can be challenging and may necessitate using on-premises systems to integrate them with Microsoft Intune."
"Unfortunately, Intune’s management extension does not provide the same level of logging, and I lack the visibility in Intune that I had with SCCM."
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"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."
"The solution is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages."
"There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark."
"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."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
"There could be more stuff in the workflows. I hope that if I have ten templates with different services on it, workflow could auto-populate all the template-based services."
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"The support could be better."
"There are some options not available in the community edition of the solution."
"It should support more integration with different products."
"One problem that I'm facing right now is the mismatch between the new version of Python and Ansible. Sometimes it's Python 2, and sometimes it's Python 3. When things get a bit dicey, I wish that Ansible would solve this issue by itself. I don't want to have to specify if it is Python 3 or version 2."
"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are partners, so we receive some discount. However, from the customer's perspective, Microsoft Intune's pricing is competitive with non-Microsoft technology, and the price is good compared to other market competitors."
"If you're ever going to buy an Office 365 environment, then pricing is reasonable given all that it does, but if you're not, then you might find the pricing expensive."
"We spend a lot of money on Intune licensing, and some of our users have to be double licensed just because of how our dev and corporate environments are segmented."
"Its price is quite okay. I wish they provide certain additional features with the same license."
"With one user base license, we can use Intune for up to five devices. However, with Soti MobiControl, each license is tied to a single device, meaning one license is dedicated to one device only."
"The product is offered as part of a Microsoft standard bundle. The pricing can be competitive to Airwatch, and Maas360."
"I have no comment on pricing of the solution."
"The price of Microsoft Intune is reasonable."
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"It is a very expensive tool. AWS pricing for Config is not fixed and depends on your organization's size and complexity."
"The solution charges us per hour. There's no license."
"We're charged between $8 to $13 a month per license."
"The pricing is okay."
"I am using the community edition of the solution which is free."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an affordable solution."
"It’s an open-source tool."
"Customers need to pay yearly for the license."
"You don't need to buy agents on servers or deploy expense management when using the solution, which affected our decision to go with it."
"Ansible is a lot more competitive than any of the others. Its setup was also straightforward. In fact, we just implemented Ansible on OpenShift, so that is how we are running the Ansible Automation Platform now."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Photography Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business124
Midsize Enterprise53
Large Enterprise168
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Company SizeCount
Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise48
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with AWS Config?
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What is your primary use case for AWS Config?
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What advice do you have for others considering AWS Config?
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?
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Overview

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service designed for device management, security, and compliance. It supports automation and facilitates endpoint management for Windows, iOS, and Android devices, ensuring data protection and efficient policy enforcement.

Microsoft Intune offers seamless integration with tools like Windows Autopilot to automate device setup and deployment. Integrated with Azure Active Directory, it enhances policy management while providing robust reporting and analytics tools for compliance tracking. Despite its intuitive interface aimed at simplifying navigation and device security management, there are challenges such as compatibility issues with Linux and Mac, limited policy support for Android, and demands for better third-party integration. It's widely used for both corporate-owned devices and BYOD scenarios in dynamic IT environments.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?
  • Windows Autopilot: Automates device setup for rapid deployment.
  • Azure Active Directory Integration: Enhances user policy management.
  • Reporting and Analytics: Improves compliance visibility.
  • Mobile Application Management: Ensures app security without compromising personal data.
  • Cloud-Based Management: Allows management from any location.
What benefits and ROI can users expect?
  • Time Efficiency: Automation reduces time in policy enforcement and configuration updates.
  • Enhanced Security: Ensures data protection across corporate-owned and BYOD devices.
  • Improved Compliance: Advanced reporting tools enhance compliance visibility.
  • Flexible Management: Cloud-based nature supports management from any location.

In industries such as finance and healthcare, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure data protection and compliance with regulatory standards. Manufacturing sectors utilize Intune for managing a distributed workforce across global locations, while educational institutions employ it to secure and manage devices in learning environments supporting both students and faculty.

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AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. With Config, you can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform streamlines IT operations with features like a simplified GUI and extensive module support. Its agentless architecture and YAML ease make it an adaptable choice for managing diverse infrastructures efficiently.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers a robust automation framework that supports multiple environments and integrates well with various applications. Its agentless Python-based architecture facilitates efficient server management and rapid update deployment. Users benefit from centralized management through Ansible Tower, role-based access control, and dynamic inventory. However, improvement areas include documentation, API integration, network support, and UI scaling. Enhanced community contributions could address module availability and compatibility gaps.

What are the most important features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?
  • Agentless Architecture: Leverages Python for seamless management without needing local agents.
  • Extensive Module Support: Provides modules for managing multiple environments effectively.
  • Ansible Tower GUI: Offers a centralized interface for easy automation management.
  • Role-Based Access Control: Ensures user-specific permissions for improved security.
  • Integration Capabilities: Connects with a variety of applications to enhance functionality.
  • Dynamic Inventory: Automatically updates inventory, simplifying large infrastructure management.
What benefits and ROI should one consider?
  • Automation Efficiency: Significantly reduces manual intervention, saving time and resources.
  • Adaptability: Easily integrates with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Security Compliance: Automates compliance checks, ensuring up-to-date security protocols.
  • Cost Management: Lower operational costs through streamlined processes.
  • Scalability: Supports infrastructure growth without requiring major adjustments.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and technology, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is used for network management, security compliance, and configuration tasks. Organizations utilize its capabilities for cloud and on-premises deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and workflow orchestration. Many integrate it with tools such as Puppet or Terraform to enhance CI/CD processes, benefiting from its agentless design in adapting to cloud environments.

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