--- title: AWS OpsWorks Reviews meta\_title: 'AWS OpsWorks Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 20 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS OpsWorks works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 20 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # AWS OpsWorks Reviews & Product Details 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. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [AWS OpsWorks Community](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-opsworks/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 8 months ### Return on Investment 24 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-opsworks/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Azure Automation & Control](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Automation & Control") Azure Automation & Control 4.4/5(66) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-automation-control/reviews) [ ![Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform") Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 4.6/5(377) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) [ ![IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)") IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform) 4.6/5(116) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-terraform-formerly-hashicorp-terraform/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-opsworks/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 20 real user reviews. Implementation Time 8 months [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Marco M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Marco M.") MM Marco M. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "Opsworks review" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks? The way to integer chef recipes into to the aws environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks? permissions, sometimes is very hard and messy to give permission to users to a cerain Stacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/14/2018 "I can't wait to get ride of OpsWorks" 3/5 What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks? It's easy enough to create/destroy EC2 instances for an existing application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS OpsWorks: Look at ECS/Fargate instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite NH Nicholas H. Cloud Infrastructure Administrator Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "perfect guided DevOps experience" 0/5 What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks? OpsWorks makes it incredibly easy to manage, monitor, and maintain the full stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Shayna L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shayna L.") SL Shayna L. Associate, Integrated Investment Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/24/2018 "consistent amazon quality that performs well" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you? the ad ops process is streamlined and easily managed across ecommerce campaigns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 9/21/2018 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/27/2018 "Opsworks has changed my life" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Capital Markets](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Capital Markets") AC Verified User in Capital Markets Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/29/2018 "Can be more enterprise focused" 1.5/5 What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks? I like not having to manage chef server myself and underlying OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Gambling & Casinos](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Gambling & Casinos") AG Verified User in Gambling & Casinos Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Opsworks used to handle user load" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks? Easy to view running instances, easy to start / stop any when additional resources are needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Opsworks" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks? The old version of chef in the standalone instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you? Provide different enviroments for production, staging and development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/26/2018 "Making Life Easy" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS OpsWorks? The simple ui to work with and how easy it is to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS OpsWorks? IN all actuality there isnt anything i dont like about the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS OpsWorks solving and how is that benefiting you? Taking task that required several people down to 1 person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign SR Santosh R. Front End Developer Insurance Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/29/2018 "It's service" 4.5/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 8 months ### Return on Investment 24 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-opsworks/pricing) AWS OpsWorks Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_2ac0e7b10e1efb64107026cb2b241d53/azure-automation-control.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Azure Automation & Control 4.4/5(66) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/aws-opsworks-vs-azure-automation-control) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_7b1e34d1cfcc265beee0d9b4290461fa/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Red Hat Ansible Automation... 4.6/5(377) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/aws-opsworks-vs-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_99cb722fb43074ad0429bafaa469868a/ibm-terraform-formerly-hashicorp-terraform.png "Product Avatar Image") IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform) 4.6/5(116) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/aws-opsworks-vs-ibm-terraform-formerly-hashicorp-terraform) ## Work at Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Claim this profile to respond to reviews, update product info, and reach in-market buyers. [ Claim this profile ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-opsworks/claim_requests/new?utm_medium=profile-footer-claim-cta&utm_source=g2) ##### Categories on G2 [Configuration Management](https://www.g2.com/categories/configuration-management) ##### Explore More [What platform integrates video interviewing with ATS systems?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-platform-integrates-video-interviewing-with-ats-systems)[Top tools for producing digital marketing assets](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-are-the-top-content-creation-tools-for-producing-digital-marketing-assets)[Best software for multi-channel feedback data analysis](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-are-the-best-software-platforms-for-multi-channel-feedback-data-analysis) [Which Google Workspace project management platforms offer multiple views for teams with different organizational preferences?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-google-workspace-project-management-platforms-offer-multiple-views-for-teams-with-different-organizational-preferences)[What Salesforce document generation tools work best for a financial services team that needs audit-ready documentation with compliance controls baked into the template?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-salesforce-document-generation-tools-work-best-for-a-financial-services-team-that-needs-audit-ready-documentation-with-compliance-controls-baked-into-the-template)[What is the best retail task management software for a small clothing store chain that needs something simple enough for store managers to run without IT support?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-retail-task-management-software-for-a-small-clothing-store-chain-that-needs-something-simple-enough-for-store-managers-to-run-without-it-support) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)