AWS Config vs Firefly

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.

Firefly automates cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code and helps teams govern environments and recover from outages or cyberattacks. Its tooling provides IaC orchestration, GitOps guardrails, self-service provisioning, and automated IaC generation. Firefly scans cloud environments to build an inventory and identify unmanaged resources, drift, and misconfigurations. Immutable IaC snapshots can rebuild complete environments in a clean region or account, or roll them back to a pre-breach or last-known-good state. Integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Jira, and ServiceNow. Its MCP Server connects with compatible tools such as Cursor and Claude for natural-language discovery and codification. Firefly says it scans metadata and configurations without accessing workload data such as S3 contents or VM file systems. It states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified and offers more than 600 built-in policies. The 14-day trial has full feature access; Essential starts at $2,499 per month billed annually.