Sold by: Progress Software Corporation
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.
Conveniently bring your current Chef license to your AWS subscriptions with all the benefits in an easy-to-deploy model.
Highlights
- Configuration Management for All Platforms and Operating Systems
- Continuous Compliance Audits and Automated Remediation
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Details
Delivery method
Delivery option
Chef_Automate_BYOL
Latest version
Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04
Deployed on AWS
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Pricing
Pricing and entitlements for this product are managed through an external billing relationship between you and the vendor. You activate the product by supplying a license purchased outside of AWS Marketplace, while AWS provides the infrastructure required to launch the product. AWS Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. However, the cancellation won't affect the status of the external license.
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Delivery details
Chef_Automate_BYOL
Chef Automate BYOL uses cloudformation to deploy the license you provide.
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."
Version release notes
Automate Version 4.13
Additional details
Usage instructions
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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Support
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Customer reviews
Retail
Chef 360 Helps Us Migrate Infrastructure and Deliver New Customer Features
Reviewed on Jul 30, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Chef 360 is the product which I can try to migrate from infra server in my organisation to uplift new features for our customers
What do you dislike about the product?
Progress team has to come up with an AI option if possible so that we can think of how it would be useful for us to improve our infrastructure experience for customers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compliance is one of the key which we have used to solve our hardening operating system
Monali M.
User-Friendly Tool That Makes Repetitive Infrastructure Jobs Easy
Reviewed on Jul 30, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It user friendly and makes the repeative infrastructure jobs easy.It uses different language and any modifications of cookbook can be done easiy
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the failures are hard to figure out
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Routine tasks like server database provision, mundane tasks also can be automated
Sanjay K.
Effective Infrastructure Management with Learning Curve
Reviewed on Jul 30, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like how Progress Chef offers easy configuration management and makes the upgrade of software components in our entire infrastructure simple, even within a regulated environment. I appreciate its capability to maintain industry-standard CIS across all the software in the organization. Plus, I find the infrastructure ageless and straightforward to manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find writing code in Ruby difficult. Ruby is not widely used in the industry, and it's hard to find programmers who know Ruby, plus learning it takes a long time. Also, the initial setup of Progress Chef was not easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef for managing configurations and upgrading software components easily, even in a regulated environment. It helps maintain industry-standard CIS across our organization's software, making infrastructure management ageless and simple.
Yashwanth N.
Flexible Compliance Automation That Delivers
Reviewed on Jul 30, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Compliance and the flexibility to leverage automations on fly
What do you dislike about the product?
The solution innovations frequency and the new enhancements are very delayed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to utilise the hardening very effectively and very easy to automate the manual things
Retail
Handles Large Infrastructure Setups with Ease
Reviewed on Jul 30, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It can handle large infrastructure setups with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation doesn’t provide enough detail for anyone who wants to build custom automations around it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
If configured correctly, Chef provides a bird’s-eye view of the entire infrastructure estate. It can be useful for a large number of people across the team.