Let's get this out of the way now. At the time of writing, Red Hat does not recommend Ansible AWX for production environments. Personally, I have found it to be quite stable, especially for software that is in constant development. Sure, there have been some issues when upgrading but, for the most part, these have been minimal.
With Ansible AWX being the upstream of Ansible Tower, there are features present, such as being able to use third-party authentication services and workflows, which are not present in the self-supported version of Ansible Tower. There are also no limits on the number of hosts you can manage. This makes Ansible AWX a very attractive alternative to Ansible Tower; however, you do need to take into account ...
