AWS Config vs CloudBolt

AWS Config assesses, audits, and evaluates AWS resource configurations through web and API access. It records configuration changes so teams can inspect earlier states through the console, API, or CLI, and it can cover selected third-party resources such as on-premises servers, SaaS monitoring tools, and version control systems. Prebuilt rules and custom AWS Lambda rules evaluate configurations against policies. Conformance packs combine rules with remediation actions and aggregated compliance reporting. Aggregators centralize configuration metadata and rule compliance across accounts and Regions, while advanced queries use a subset of SQL SELECT syntax to search current state. Integrations described for the service include AWS Organizations, CloudTrail, Security Hub CSPM, Audit Manager, Systems Manager, Firewall Manager, EC2 Dedicated Hosts, and Application Load Balancers. Charges are usage-based for recorded configuration items and rule evaluations; related S3, SNS, and Lambda charges may also apply. Rules report status but do not prevent noncompliant changes.

CloudBolt provides cloud management and Kubernetes rightsizing for teams governing and optimizing hybrid environments. CloudBolt CMP offers self-service provisioning under policies and standardized workflows. It supports more than 25 cloud providers and hypervisor platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, OpenStack, OpenShift and Kubernetes. Its integration library contains more than 200 tools spanning IT service management, infrastructure-as-code, identity, security and backup. CMP governance includes role-based access, granular permissions, approvals, policy enforcement and audit trails. For cost oversight, it offers cross-environment visibility, budgets, quota enforcement, forecasts and optimization recommendations, along with cost allocation, budget alerts and commitment management. StormForge checks Kubernetes optimization recommendations against performance data and can apply validated changes automatically, with health checks and rollback. Its free trial covers full optimization on one cluster for 30 days. CMP Free costs nothing and includes core CMP capabilities for up to 100 resources, forever. CloudBolt also lists custom billing, paid support packages and professional services.