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It's easy enough to create/destroy EC2 instances for an existing application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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The way to integer chef recipes into to the aws environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
permissions, sometimes is very hard and messy to give permission to users to a cerain Stacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
OpsWorks makes it incredibly easy to manage, monitor, and maintain the full stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I like not having to manage chef server myself and underlying OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
Easy to view running instances, easy to start / stop any when additional resources are needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
The old version of chef in the standalone instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
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.
