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
98 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+96 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Fair
- Includes Product Enhancements
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AWS CloudFormation Reviews
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2024
Effortless Orchestration
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Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Kamran A.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2023
From a Multi-Cloud Architect's Lenses
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What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
AWS cloudFormation has finest automation technique to build up the resources. And logging all steps
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
AWS cloud Formation is secure among it peers in the cloud domain which make is happening about the product and also it can be easily automated
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing as such, it is finest in the market.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Must have for the business who is concerned about automating the cloud resource creation, because cloudformation provides the best steps to automate cloud builds.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Kabilan M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2025
IaC Tool with Room for Better User Experience and
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What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
AWS CloudFormation stands out from other IaC tools primarily because it is natively integrated into the AWS ecosystem. Since it is an AWS-managed service, it provides deep integration with AWS services, lifecycle automation, and security features that external tools cannot fully match.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of AWS CloudFormation is the ability to define and manage infrastructure as code in a fully automated and repeatable way. I really appreciate how CloudFormation can create, update, and delete entire environments consistently with a single template, eliminating manual setup and reducing configuration errors. The built-in features like change sets, automatic rollback, and drift detection make deployments safer and more controlled, especially in production environments.
What do you dislike most about this product?
What I dislike most about CloudFormation is that it can become quite complex to manage and debug when dealing with large or advanced infrastructure setups. The error messages are often not very clear, which makes troubleshooting time-consuming.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend starting with AWS CloudFormation if you’re looking for a reliable and fully AWS-integrated Infrastructure-as-Code solution but be prepared for a learning curve. Begin with smaller templates and build gradually to avoid complexity. Make use of Change Sets, Stack Policies, and Drift Detection to safely manage deployments and prevent accidental errors.
Pros
- Inspires Innovation
- Acts with Integrity
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Cons
- Less Generous