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Deployed on AWS
Progress Chef accelerates your DevSecOps journey, modernizes the continuous delivery of secure applications and infrastructure, and enables you to define Policy as Code to confidently manage your entire fleet.
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Overview
Accelerate your DevSecOps journey with Chef and AWS and take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, testability, security, reliability, and observability that they bring together.
The Progress® Chef® portfolio includes solutions for infrastructure management, application delivery (including edge devices), support for cloud-to-edge security and continuous compliance solutions - accessible through a unified interface for thorough fleet-wide visibility and control.
Infrastructure Management
Chef uses a policy-as-code approach to streamline configuration management in any environment: on-premises, cloud, or hybrid, regardless of underlying infrastructure or OS.
Security and Compliance Automation
Chef helps organizations streamline the maintenance of compliant IT infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud. It leverages certified, curated audit and remediation content catering to standard benchmarks such as CIS, DISA-STIGs and internal regulations across diverse IT fleets, including Cloud and Kubernetes Security Posture Management.
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Highlights
- Configuration Management for All Platforms and Operating Systems
- Continuous Compliance Audits and Automated Remediation
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
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Ubuntu 24.04
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
d2.4xlarge | $0.20 |
i3.8xlarge | $0.20 |
d2.2xlarge | $0.20 |
m5.large | $0.20 |
m4.large | $0.20 |
i3.4xlarge | $0.20 |
t2.xlarge | $0.20 |
t3.xlarge | $0.20 |
i3.2xlarge | $0.20 |
m5.4xlarge | $0.20 |
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About 10 minutes after launching the Chef Automate AMI, you can access the application via a browser at https://<public_dns-name>/. Credential are provided from the instance dashboard, or you can shell into the instance to get your unique login credentials in ~/automate-credentials.toml. For hands-on learning, please visit https://learn.chef.io/
CloudFormation Template (CFT)
AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files that simplify provisioning and management on AWS. The templates describe the service or application architecture you want to deploy, and AWS CloudFormation uses those templates to provision and configure the required services (such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances). The deployed application and associated resources are called a "stack."
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About 10 minutes after launching the Chef Automate AMI, you can access the application via a browser at https://<public_dns-name>/. Credential are provided from the instance dashboard, or you can shell into the instance to get your unique login credentials in ~/automate-credentials.toml. For hands-on learning, please visit https://learn.chef.io/
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Policy-as-Code Configuration Management
Implements policy-as-code approach for configuration management across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments regardless of underlying infrastructure or operating system.
Continuous Compliance Auditing
Performs continuous compliance audits leveraging certified and curated content aligned with standard benchmarks including CIS and DISA-STIGs across diverse IT fleets.
Automated Remediation
Executes automated remediation of non-compliant infrastructure configurations to maintain compliance posture across on-premises and cloud environments.
Cloud Security Posture Management
Provides cloud security posture management capabilities including cloud and Kubernetes security posture assessment and management.
Unified Fleet Management Interface
Delivers unified interface for fleet-wide visibility and control across infrastructure management, application delivery, and edge devices.
AI-Powered Infrastructure Automation
Integrates with Amazon Bedrock and AWS MCP Server to convert natural-language intent into production-ready AWS infrastructure through pre-built agentic AI agents
Multi-Domain Pre-built Agents
Includes pre-built agents for Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security, and compliance automation across AWS infrastructure
Self-Hosted Deployment with IAM Integration
Deployed as a single-tenant solution within an EC2 instance in customer AWS account, using IAM roles with instance profiles instead of access keys to inherit existing IAM policies
Infrastructure as Code and API Access
Provides web interface, REST API, and Terraform provider for infrastructure provisioning and management
Compliance and Security Automation
Supports automated compliance frameworks including SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO, NIST, HITRUST, and FedRAMP through built-in security agents, antivirus, HIDS, NIDS, CIS hardening, and automated patching
AI-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization
Context-aware AI agents analyze exploitability, blast radius, compensating controls, and business impact to score and rank vulnerabilities for focused remediation efforts.
Automated Remediation with Rollback Capabilities
Machine-speed patching and policy fixes at scale using pre-tested code with full visibility into actions, rollback capabilities, and ITSM tool integration.
Multi-Environment Vulnerability Scanning
Agentless scanning and Policy-as-Code coverage across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, and CI/CD pipelines.
Continuous Monitoring and Drift Prevention
Persistent scanning with continuous monitoring and drift prevention using open-source technologies like Ansible and Terraform for unified vulnerability lifecycle management.
Compliance Framework Enforcement
Support for 300+ out-of-the-box compliance frameworks including PCI DSS, NIST, and ISO 27001 with DevOps pipeline integration such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
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Customer reviews
Anonymous
Powerful Automation with a Steep Learning Curve
Reviewed on Jul 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Progress Chef's ability to automate infrastructure management while ensuring consistency across all servers. Instead of configuring systems manually, I define the desired state in code, and Chef applies it automatically, reducing downtime and improving consistency. Once it's properly implemented, it becomes a powerful and reliable tool for automating infrastructure at scale. After migrating from Puppet, we have found Chef to offer a more flexible and maintainable automation platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
One area where Progress Chef could be improved is its learning curve, it takes more time to understand concepts. Debugging issues are challenging, setting up and managing Chef servers are complex for smaller environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef to manage servers, reducing downtime and improving consistency. It automates infrastructure management, allowing me to define desired states in code while ensuring consistency across servers.
Anonymous
User-Friendly UI with Detailed Error Tracking
Reviewed on Jul 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I find the UI of Progress Chef to be user-friendly, which really helps in displaying all the servers it supports. It shows the errors in detail for servers that are failing, and you can track back to when the failure started, which is incredibly useful. Every morning, I conduct check-ins to see which servers need attention or have been decommissioned, and this tool assists in alerting the VM owners effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
None so far as we only use it for observability nothing much
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef for observability, checking health status, identifying server issues, and alerting VM owners about failures. Its user-friendly UI shows supported servers and detailed errors, helping me track problems back to their start.
Nomzamo X.
Efficient Automation Tool with a Learning Curve
Reviewed on Jul 06, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Progress Chef's ability to automate infrastructure management and maintain consistent server configuration across environments. It reduces manual work, it's reliable, and saves time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning can be a challenge. Improved documentation would make it easier. I think a more step-by-step guide for beginners and clear troubleshooting documentation for common errors would help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef to automate and configure servers, eliminating manual setup errors and maintaining consistent configurations. It's reliable, reduces manual work, and saves time.
Judith Mologadi M.
Simplifies Automation and Boosts Consistency Across Environments
Reviewed on Jul 06, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It simplifies automation,improves consistency and reduce manual effort in managing our environments
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup and troubleshooting can be complex for new users
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Progress chef helps automate infrastructure and configuration management,reducing manual effort,improving consistency and enabling faster,more reliable deployment
Kwazikonke M.
Exceptional Monitoring and Compliance Tool
Reviewed on Jul 01, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Progress Chef for its visibility and monitoring capabilities. It allows us to easily track Chef-managed VMs, verify they are checking in successfully, and quickly identify systems that require attention. It helps us see which VMs are healthy, failing, missing, or checking in as expected, and when a system stops reporting, we can identify and investigate it immediately.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef to monitor and track VMs, ensuring regular check-ins and compliance. It solves the challenge of monitoring managed VMs and provides visibility to quickly identify systems needing attention, helping maintain our infrastructure standards.