# AWS OpsWorks Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Configuration Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/configuration-management) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 ## About AWS OpsWorks AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet, which are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers. ## AWS OpsWorks Reviews ### 1. Opsworks review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marco M. | Software Engineer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** The way to integer chef recipes into to the aws environment **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** permissions, sometimes is very hard and messy to give permission to users to a cerain Stacks **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** be more frinfly to use, sometimes is hard the UI, and should be an option to see the SSH keys that are hostes in the Application, i had a issue with this some time ago, then I asked to AWS support for where to review and check all the SSH keys and fingerprints and they didn't resolve my problem, then i figured out the keys were on the applicacion area, and i have to solve my problem by myself, other than that the support was very good. **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** we have pretty much all of our app in opsworks so all the deployments are hosted here ### 2. I can't wait to get ride of OpsWorks **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** It's easy enough to create/destroy EC2 instances for an existing application **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** We have a massive legacy application which is deployed through with Chef Recipes and OpsWorks by Jenkins. No one in the company can wrap their head around these recipes and we all just hope that it keeps working until we can migrate our deployment infrastructure to ECS/Fargate with CodeDeploy. 50% of our deploys fail because of an error in one EC2 instance which didn't affect a dozen other identical instances. Sometimes the logs are available. Sometimes their not. I'll admit there's a chance we're using the system wrong but when you intend on migrating towards a system which actually accommodates auto-scaling it's hard to invest the resources into learning a technology that we'll soon be replacing. **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** Look at ECS/Fargate instead. **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solve the problem of deploying an application in production with a seamless user experience. ### 3. perfect guided DevOps experience **Reviewed by:** Nicholas H. | Cloud Infrastructure Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** OpsWorks makes it incredibly easy to manage, monitor, and maintain the full stack. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** In our implementation there are some inherent limitations surrounding software version dependencies (e.g., Chef, etc.) but that’s not really a legitimate complaint. There isn’t much to dislike. **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** Do it! There are better third-party solutions for more complex use cases, but OpsWorks coveres 90% of the challenges really well. **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpsWorks provides rigid control of a product solution with a small and busy team. ### 4. consistent amazon quality that performs well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shayna L. | Associate, Integrated Investment, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** steps are clearly outlined and the interface is organized in a coherent manner; you have the backing of the Amazon brand and a team of people that will support you **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** there are some additional fields that I feel I don't need; this adds clutter to the space and can feel overwhelming. pricing is higher for this service than others **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** make sure you are working with a rep that you feel comfortable with; you will be working with this person to understand all aspects of the campaign and want to ensure a good relationship **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** the ad ops process is streamlined and easily managed across ecommerce campaigns ### 5. Opsworks has changed my life **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** The auto healing, if opsworks detects that one of my instances is unhealthy it will stop it restart it and re-run my setup and configure setups. Several times this has happened overnight. My instance went down and came back up without my intervention. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** the AWS engineers seem to add new features to opsworks as afterthoughts. The newest version of the amazon AMI was close to being released and we still had not gotten the previous release. **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to treat my instances more like cattle instead of pets. As new instance types are released I can upgrade without too many problems. ### 6. Can be more enterprise focused **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Capital Markets | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** I like not having to manage chef server myself and underlying OS **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** I have several security requirements I must have installed on any EC2 instances I run in my VPC. OpsWorks removes all of these installs every time amazon does an update of the underlying OS. This requires me to re-install my required software. **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to install middleware and hardening on the rest of my EC2 resources. ### 7. Opsworks used to handle user load **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Gambling & Casinos | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** Easy to view running instances, easy to start / stop any when additional resources are needed. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** Hard to debug when instances don't start / fail to start. Not much else I do not like **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gives the ability to scale our application to many users and handle increases / decreases in load ### 8. Opsworks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** The overall archutecture presentation of clusters, servers and virtual machines is pretty easy to use. Also the easy way to automatize one complete stack from a single repository. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** The old version of chef in the standalone instances **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provide different enviroments for production, staging and development. ### 9. Making Life Easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** The simple ui to work with and how easy it is to understand. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** IN all actuality there isnt anything i dont like about the software. **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking task that required several people down to 1 person ### 10. It's service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Santosh R. | Front End Developer, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** Instances offered by AWS is really good and the best cloud service providers as far as my knowledge **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** There is a lot to know to handle the AWS cloud and I don't consider it as dislike, but something I should be improving myself **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using AWS for our company production and storing data in S3 ### 11. Good for some usecases **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** SSH users that automatically get assigned to the instances **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** recipes are too complex for simpler cases **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've Several deployments of OpsWorks for a variety of scenarios. it works good for stable systems. ### 12. OPsworks in Production **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** I like the automation behind opsworks. Well integrated with chef **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** Not all AZ are always supported. ALB not supported **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Devops, IAAS ### 13. Mainly Chef **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2017 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** Chef allows infrastructure as code (coding scripts to provision servers and apps instead of manual job). Chef is coded in ruby, an easy language to learn and a large community around it (both for ruby and chef) to help learn from existing tutorials and find questions on boards. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** Opsworks adds a lot of chef recipes and templates that can not be overwritten, complicated to work around. Need more information about what exactly is performed by opsworks itself and what is left to the sys admin. **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** Use Chef 12 stacks, giving much more control to administrators. Take some times before hands to learn chef itself, while learning is not difficult there is still a lot to learn, chef is a quite powerfull provisionning system with multiple side systems (kitchen, knife) to learn. Doing so would avoid quite a lot of rookie mistakes to be fixed / refactored later. **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Repeatability, predictability and speed in provisionning servers. ### 14. Aws review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** The entire AWS system is very user friendly and works well for someone without extensive computer knowledge. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** Up until this time, the only thing that I do not like is the lag time which is most likely more due to my internet connection. **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use AWS Ops Works as an extra storage storage service for interdepartmental communication. ### 15. Best product in today's market **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** Easy to manage large infrastructure deployments and this service automates deployment, operational tasks and configurations for our system distributed applications. Very useful product in my professional life so far. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** I do not have any dislike about this product. Which is very great thing about AWS Ops work **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** Excellent product for stress free like **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** large infrastructure deployments and automatic configuration management. ### 16. Easy to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** I like the display and how the information is easy to find and analyze. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** I do not have any complaints other than sometimes the data is slow to load. **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** Spend some time learning all of the functionalities and features **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this to analyze our consumer data so that we may increase our profits through digital advertisements ### 17. Best for DevOps! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** This has been one of the best features of AWS where you can spin up configuration management tools - DevOps tools and set it up easly on AWS **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** I have nothing to dislike about their services **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuration management using puppet and chef has helped the company eliminate manual configuration setups and provided ease to our IT management team ### 18. Awesome **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** It made my work so much easier and more efficient **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** I hope there is more demo videos on YouTube **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am managing my app with opswork. I like the fact that I don’t have to configure a server on my own ### 19. Opsworks play a significant role in our architecture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2017 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** The web client makes it easy to configure, deploy and manage various apps and instances without having touch the command line. Scaling instances to serve varying levels of traffic and process batches of background jobs is quite seamless. **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** There hasn't been much to dislike in our experience so far. **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** Use stacks to set up multiple environments (beta, staging, production) **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are currently managing multiple layers of our website's architecture using Opsworks. We've managed to automate the configuration, deployment and scaling of our apps/instances to save us time and money. ### 20. Aws **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks?** Easy if usage,easy of deployment,Amazon's good support, **What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks?** Price,the price could be better.since there are open source available now **Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks:** It's good **What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides good standard methodology to manage DB,storage ECT - [View AWS OpsWorks pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-opsworks/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+10%3A42%3A25+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4aa238d1-81f6-4e09-9d67-e47e4dc33a04&secure%5Btoken%5D=2bc1f314bb7aa12bf7241314995e9495671f107462453bc1d0027397f5afb8b0&format=llm_user) ## Top AWS OpsWorks Alternatives - [Azure Automation & Control](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-automation-control/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (63 reviews) - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews) - [IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-terraform-formerly-hashicorp-terraform/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (99 reviews)