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AWS CloudFormation

8.9 /10

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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90 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 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?

0% Negative

8% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Fair
Helps Innovate
Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Configuration Management

Dynamic Scalability

Systems Administration

Service Templates

Resource Availability

Agent or Agentless

Task Process Automation

Resource Definition

Workflow Support

Multi Tenancy

Scripting Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

AWS CloudFormation Reviews

Sunny H.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2021

Best way to keep track & model the cloud resources

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?

We have used CloudFormation to model our entire stack of applications that are using cloud resources. These applications are like Java microservices deployed on ECS, EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS SNS, etc. Cloudformation helps in creating & managing this list of resources systematically by creating a template in JSON or Yaml file. We can use this file to replicate & create the resources for all our development environments using dynamic parameters & creating cloudformation stacks.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cloudformation helps in creating & managing this list of resources systematically by creating a template in JSON or Yaml file.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Cloudformation does not support some AWS resources

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

With AWS CloudFormation, we are creating a single centralized stack of resources that are used to maintain & manage the application for different environments. The benefit of Cloudformation is that it has reduced our development time by half due to the automation of deployment & creation of cloud resources.

Mayara G.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

One of the best definition of IaaC

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?

Integration with all AWS products

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Very good documentation

What do you dislike most about this product?

Complexity

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I suggest you to read all the documentation provided by AWS

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Role: Consultant
Industry: Electronics
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted May 2021

The standard of cloud formation, but overwhelming

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Cons

Leverages Incumbent Status

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AWS Cloud​Formation Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love AWS Cloud​Formation?

Pros

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

Configuration Management Tracking of server configuration and configuration changes.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

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.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sunny H.

Best way to keep track & model the cloud resources

Likeliness to Recommend

Mayara G.

One of the best definition of IaaC

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

The standard of cloud formation, but overwhelming

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

AWS CloudFormation

What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation Ratings

How much do users love AWS CloudFormation?

Feature Ratings

Configuration Management

Dynamic Scalability

Systems Administration

Service Templates

Resource Availability

Agent or Agentless

Task Process Automation

Resource Definition

Workflow Support

Multi Tenancy

Scripting Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Vendor Support

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

AWS CloudFormation Reviews