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AWS CloudFormation

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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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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AWS CloudFormation Ratings

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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

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love AWS CloudFormation?

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6% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Helps Innovate
Saves Time
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Dynamic Scalability

Configuration Management

Systems Administration

Resource Availability

Task Process Automation

Resource Definition

Service Templates

Agent or Agentless

Workflow Support

Multi Tenancy

Scripting Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

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AWS CloudFormation Reviews

Cornelia E.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Jun 2023

Powerful tool for AWS automation

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?

AWS Cloudformation enables the provisioning and management of different resources within AWS. To get you started with the resource of your choosing, simple templates are easily accessible.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My best feature of CloudFormation is that it provides centralized resource management and monitoring. This avoids manual setup and lowers the possibility of mistakes because it is an IaC tool. The intended configuration specified in the template is followed when using CloudFormation to deploy your infrastructure.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Due to improper IDE integration, debugging cloud-based applications is only possible for AWS resources.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

AWS CloudFormation works well in situations when all of your resources must be provisioned on AWS, but it is not appropriate for deployments in hybrid clouds. Learning is relatively simple for a new person. The template's amount of modification, which is intended exclusively for AWS services, is excellent. There is also a user interface tool that allows us to drag and drop the services we want, and it creates an extremely user-friendly yaml file.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Mayuresh T.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Easy Deployment with AWS CloudFormation

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?

AWS CloudFormation offers change management and rollbacks, allowing users to keep track of infrastructure changes and easily manage them. If any issues or failures occur during the change process, CloudFormation can automatically revert back to the previous working state.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

AWS CloudFormation can define your infrastructure using templates. This means you can describe all the resources you need in a code-like format. When you deploy your infrastructure, CloudFormation automatically provisions the resources for you.

What do you dislike most about this product?

As your infrastructure stacks become larger and more complex, using CloudFormation to manage and troubleshoot them can become more difficult. It may be challenging to identify and fix issues, keep track of dependencies between resources, and ensure optimal performance.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Use Best Practices for CloudFormation Templates: Follow recommended guidelines for creating CloudFormation templates to make them easier to maintain, reusable, and scalable. This involves breaking templates into smaller, manageable parts, using parameters and mappings efficiently to customise deployments, and implementing version control to track changes.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Nayan D.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Jun 2023

Steep learning curve - IAAC for AWS

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?

Integration within AWS services

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

- Automate infra provisioning for AWS cloud and helps in maintaining hygiene - Template builder functionatiy for 0-1 usecase from a stack

What do you dislike most about this product?

- Documentation for complex usecases - Multi cloud support (Terraform) - yaml can get overwhelming

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Good and robust product for AWS automation. If you use multi cloud architecture do check Terraform over this,

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91 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Dynamic Scalability Ability to scale servers up or down, depending on resource requirements. This activity may be automated, triggered by conditions, or be completely manual.

Configuration Management Tracking of server configuration and configuration changes.

Systems Administration Tools allowing the systems administration of multiple servers through a single tool, to reduce repetitive task execution.

Resource Availability Orchestration/Provisioning software must be able to allocate resources for new server requests so that compute, memory and storage is not over-provisioned.

Task Process Automation Automation of tasks and processes of the Orchestration/Provisioning software without systems administration intervention.

Resource Definition The systems administrator defines resources needed for the new server definition, which is processed and deployed by the Orchestration/Provisioning software.

Service Templates Templates for standard server configurations, to allow for expedited provisioning and deployment of standard server types.

Agent or Agentless The orchestration, provisioning, deployment and management of servers being done with or without a software agent.

Workflow Support The ability to incorporate pre-defined workflows into provisioned servers.

Multi Tenancy Software works in tandem with hosting system and the management of the multiple systems running in the same environment with appropriate levels of segregation.

Scripting Support Support for systems scripting languages such as Python and Java to further automate operating systems level tasks.

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Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

AWS Cloud​Formation Reviews

Cornelia E.

Powerful tool for AWS automation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mayuresh T.

Easy Deployment with AWS CloudFormation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Nayan D.

Steep learning curve - IAAC for AWS

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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AWS CloudFormation

What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation Ratings

How much do users love AWS CloudFormation?

Feature Ratings

Dynamic Scalability

Configuration Management

Systems Administration

Resource Availability

Task Process Automation

Resource Definition

Service Templates

Agent or Agentless

Workflow Support

Multi Tenancy

Scripting Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

AWS CloudFormation Reviews