Ansible VS amazon.aws

Compare Ansible vs amazon.aws and see what are their differences.

Ansible

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com. (by ansible)

amazon.aws

Ansible Collection for Amazon AWS (by ansible-collections)
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Ansible amazon.aws
388 13
60,695 268
1.2% 1.5%
9.8 9.3
7 days ago 2 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Ansible

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ansible. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-22.

amazon.aws

Posts with mentions or reviews of amazon.aws. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
  • The Bullhorn #115 (Ansible Newsletter)
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 13 Sep 2023
    amazon.aws 6.4.0 has been released with a new module named amazon.aws.ec2_key_info, some documentation improvements, new features and bugfixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #105 (Ansible Newsletter)
    4 projects | /r/ansible | 12 Jun 2023
    amazon.aws 5.5.1 has been released with several bugfixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #102 (Ansible Newsletter)
    9 projects | /r/ansible | 16 May 2023
    amazon.aws 5.5.0 has been released with a number of bugfixes, new features and new modules. This is the last planned minor release prior to the release of version 6.0.0 (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #97 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 5 Apr 2023
    amazon.aws 5.4.0 has been released with bugfixes for the ec2_metadata_facts, ec2_vol, rds_instance and route53_info modules, as well as feature enhancements for the ec2_spot_instance and route53_health_check modules - see changelog for details.
  • is it just me, or does RH's docs on AAP just suck?
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 30 Dec 2022
    Here's another example: https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/blob/main/plugins/inventory/aws_ec2.py
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 30 Dec 2022
    Hi folks! I'm one of the docs writers for community Ansible (aka docs.ansible.com, not access.redhat.com). It sounds like you've found a place to log your docs problems already but I did open an issue on the amazon.aws collection directly to handle the examples that aren't quoted for `filters` at https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1331
  • The Bullhorn #77 (Ansible Newsletter)
    6 projects | /r/ansible | 7 Oct 2022
    The amazon.aws collection version 5.0.0 has been released. See the changelog for details on new modules and features.
  • The Bullhorn #64 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 24 Jun 2022
    amazon.aws 4.0.0 has been released with some new features, bugfixes, breaking changes and deprecated features. The amazon.aws collection has also dropped support for botocore<1.20.0 and boto3<1.17.0 (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #52 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 31 Mar 2022
    amazon.aws 2.2.0 has been released with bug-fixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #46 (Ansible Newsletter)
    10 projects | /r/ansible | 17 Feb 2022
    amazon.aws 3.1.1 has been released with some new features, bugfixes and a deprecation (see changelog for details). 3.1.0 failed to publish on Galaxy, hence, we had to bump the release version.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ansible and amazon.aws you can also consider the following projects:

Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init

pyinfra - pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python. It’s fast and scales from one server to thousands. Great for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.

cloudinit - Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization

Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages πŸš€

(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

pexpect - A Python module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal

psutil - Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python

ansible-pfsense - Ansible modules for managing pfSense firewalls

SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here: