
What is AWS CloudFormation?
AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment. CloudFormation allows you to use a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts. This file serves as the single source of truth for your cloud environment.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+95 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Helps Innovate
- Saves Time
- Fair
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AWS CloudFormation Reviews

Saurabh M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2022
Best Product for AWS services
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
Deployment speed and service integration is very good with AWS cloud formation in simplified ways
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Consistency template designing
What do you dislike most about this product?
Vendor specific service
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
highly recommended if anyone using AWS extensively
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features

Sulaiman O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Sep 2022
"'Infrastructure as a code" "Easy Stack templates"
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
Easily integration with other AWS services. Easy usage of stack templates. Extensive capacity function to suit various use cases.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy usage of stack templates Extensive capacity function to suit various use cases.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Bootlenect of AWS services
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Integration with some neutral vendors infrastructure.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Effective Service
- Friendly Negotiation

Sai krishna M.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2022
Excellent Product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
Easy way modelling of Aws and third party resources ,Quickly consistently provisioning of infrastructure ,Extensibility ,Feasibility Authoring of JSON,YAML ,Cross account and Cross region management
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Extensibility, Easy way to provision Aws resources
What do you dislike most about this product?
maximum number resources created is only 500 exactly
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
can you please try to increase the maximum number of resources created at one time
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity