ControlMonkey has been used for managing resources across multi-region accounts and large-scale infrastructure in AWS, with the goal of achieving easy control of the resources and the easiest way to manage them.
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Multi-region management has become simpler and has reduced infrastructure errors and effort
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
ControlMonkey has impacted our organization positively so far, as it was really difficult to manage multi-region accounts and now it is easier to have AWS accounts in different regions that can communicate.
We have seen a decrease in errors by 5% so far, which shows how things have improved with ControlMonkey.
What is most valuable?
The multi-region support is what we have been looking for, so that is the most important feature. ControlMonkey is easy to use when it comes to the features.
What needs improvement?
There is not much to improve at this time regarding how ControlMonkey can be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have tried ControlMonkey since a couple of weeks ago.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
ControlMonkey appears to be stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
ControlMonkey's scalability is performing quite well.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support has not been used yet.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not previously use a different solution, as everything was customized and directly made by the engineers.
How was the initial setup?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing ControlMonkey.
What about the implementation team?
We are a partner with this vendor other than just being a customer.
What was our ROI?
There has been a return on investment, as there was a decrease of time spent on managing the infrastructure by 20%.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was easy to understand and aligned with the expectations.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
ControlMonkey was purchased through the AWS Marketplace.
What other advice do I have?
ControlMonkey is good to try to see if it can make an improvement. The overall review rating for this product is 8.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Full DRP for our Networking Architecture with Terraform and ControlMonkey
What do you like best about the product?
Many of our AWS networking resources were not managed with Terraform Code, leaving us with no easy way to roll back configuration when needed.
ControlMonkey's Terraform Import Engine connected to our AWS accounts in minutes, and with a few clicks, we automatically generated the Terraform Code that represented our existing configuration.
We now have a DRP for our networking architecture, and we also utilize ControlMonkey to identify drifts from our desired networking configuration.
ControlMonkey's Terraform Import Engine connected to our AWS accounts in minutes, and with a few clicks, we automatically generated the Terraform Code that represented our existing configuration.
We now have a DRP for our networking architecture, and we also utilize ControlMonkey to identify drifts from our desired networking configuration.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently supporting only Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt. I’d like to see them supporting more IaC Frameworks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ControlMonkey helped us shift all of our networking resources to Terraform, and we now have a DRP in place in case we need to roll back our networking configuration.
Shifted our AWS Infrastructure to Terraform in no time!
What do you like best about the product?
ControlMonkey was exactly the solution we were looking for to help us shift all our cloud accounts to Terraform. Their generative algorithm automatically generated the Terraform code for thousands of resources, and right before we knew it, we were managing and scaling our Infrastructure with Terraform. Rather than taking a few months, ControlMonkey completed the migration project in just a few weeks, and freed my DevOps time to work on other urgent projects.
Further more, we absolutely love the support we get and the professional level of the team that are ready to tackle any challenges we encounter.
Further more, we absolutely love the support we get and the professional level of the team that are ready to tackle any challenges we encounter.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently, for visibility, they only fully support AWS, which makes it a bit challenging if you're running multi-cloud. I guess they will expand their offering to Azure and GCP as well very soon
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ControlMonkey shortened the Terraform migration project time by at least 70%, freed our DevOps from writing Terraform code themselves and made sure the process was streamlined and errorless. we also use it to create ad hock environments for testing and development, its perfect because we can control the infra and who can spin up which parts of predefined infra templates. including TTL on each of these environments.
Revolutionizing Infrastructure Management
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Control Monkey is its ability to streamline our Terraform deployments. It has significantly improved our infrastructure management by making the process more efficient and secure. Additionally, it simplifies Pull Request reviews and allows team members to deploy infrastructure independently, reducing bottlenecks. The central code module managed by our DevOps team ensures consistency and collaboration.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have anything negative to say about ControlMonkey. It has significantly improved our infrastructure management, making it more efficient and secure while simplifying various processes. Overall, it's been a highly valuable tool for our team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ControlMonkey is solving several key problems for our team:
Efficiency: It streamlines Terraform deployments, reducing the time and effort required to manage infrastructure.
Security: By eliminating unnecessary access to infrastructure platforms, it enhances security and ensures that only authorized personnel make changes.
Collaboration: It simplifies Pull Request reviews, making it easier for team members to work together and follow best practices.
Decentralized Deployment: ControlMonkey empowers team members to deploy infrastructure independently, reducing dependencies on a few experts and improving overall productivity.
Centralized Code Management: Our DevOps team can effectively manage the central Terraform code as a module, ensuring consistency and compliance with best practices.
These benefits collectively result in a more efficient, secure, and collaborative work environment, ultimately helping us to deploy infrastructure faster and more reliably.
Efficiency: It streamlines Terraform deployments, reducing the time and effort required to manage infrastructure.
Security: By eliminating unnecessary access to infrastructure platforms, it enhances security and ensures that only authorized personnel make changes.
Collaboration: It simplifies Pull Request reviews, making it easier for team members to work together and follow best practices.
Decentralized Deployment: ControlMonkey empowers team members to deploy infrastructure independently, reducing dependencies on a few experts and improving overall productivity.
Centralized Code Management: Our DevOps team can effectively manage the central Terraform code as a module, ensuring consistency and compliance with best practices.
These benefits collectively result in a more efficient, secure, and collaborative work environment, ultimately helping us to deploy infrastructure faster and more reliably.
Best of breed IAC automation
What do you like best about the product?
ControlMonkey helped us shift to Infrastructure as Code easily and swiftly while saving 80% of the migration time. Now we manage most of our AWS Infrastructure in a GitOps methodology through the ControlMonkey platform, with no ClickOps operations, saving countless hours of DevOps time for infrastructure provisioning and management.
Best of breed product for IAC automation.
Best of breed product for IAC automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing.really nothing.
Love the product, support and the feature released.
Love the product, support and the feature released.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Move to using IAC from 0 to 100 in no time
Managing IAC resources lifecycle
Managing IAC resources lifecycle
The Infrastructure Automation platform we were looking for
What do you like best about the product?
The ControlMonkey platform was everything my team needed in order to manage and scale our AWS environments.
We use ControlMonkey as an Infrastructure CI/CD solution, and that helps us to release faster to production, without compromising on security or compliance.
Thanks to ControlMonkey we successfully shifted our mindset and strategy from ClickOps to fully GitOps.
The team there is super strong, and every feature we requested was developed in a week, which really blew my mind.
We use ControlMonkey as an Infrastructure CI/CD solution, and that helps us to release faster to production, without compromising on security or compliance.
Thanks to ControlMonkey we successfully shifted our mindset and strategy from ClickOps to fully GitOps.
The team there is super strong, and every feature we requested was developed in a week, which really blew my mind.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much that I dislike, this product has been a real game changer for us, but one thing to mention is that they still haven't got their own Terraform Module registry as part of what they offer.
Not that this is a big deal, but just wanted to point that out.
Not that this is a big deal, but just wanted to point that out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prior to ControlMonkey, we used to handle all our Infrastructure operations manually through the AWS console, lacking any well-defined procedures for provisioning Infrastructure.
The ControlMonkey platform ensures that our cloud environment consistently maintains its intended configuration.
The ControlMonkey platform ensures that our cloud environment consistently maintains its intended configuration.
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