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AWS CloudFormation

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8.6 /10

CX Score

8.9 /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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90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 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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4% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Saves Time
Includes Product Enhancements
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Configuration Management

Systems Administration

Agent or Agentless

Dynamic Scalability

Resource Definition

Multi Tenancy

Service Templates

Scripting Support

Resource Availability

Task Process Automation

Workflow Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

AWS CloudFormation Reviews

Abhilash V.

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

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Submitted Oct 2024

User-friendly

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?

AWS CloudFormation is tightly integrated with AWS services, offering robust infrastructure-as-code capabilities tailored for AWS, with features like StackSets for multi-account management.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of AWS CloudFormation is its ability to automate the deployment and management of AWS resources as code, making infrastructure reproducible, consistent, and easy to scale across complex environments.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The main drawback of AWS CloudFormation is its sometimes slow deployment and update process, especially for complex stacks, which can lead to delays and make rapid iteration more challenging.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For those considering AWS CloudFormation, I recommend getting familiar with its templates and YAML/JSON syntax, as well as understanding stack dependencies to effectively manage complex architectures. Additionally, utilizing features like StackSets for multi-account deployments can greatly enhance scalability.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Bharath M.

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

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Submitted Oct 2024

Automating AWS Resources

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?

1. Extremely simple to create automated templated and deploy in the environments, replication and editing few things in environment becomes ease with cloud formation. 2. Large number of resource management is simple with cloud formation and very quick , efficient process,

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Fast and efficient deployment with automated resources.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It needs a technical background to make it work. Usage and understanding of scripts , managing Yaml files are must to use these.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Very Smart product to automate and manage AWS resources easily.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Effective Service

Bala s.

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

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Submitted Jun 2026

Strong Insights for Cloud Operations

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?

What makes CloudFormation different for us is that it works directly with AWS services and lets us manage infrastructure using templates. We use the same templates across multiple environments, which makes deployments more consistent and reduces manual work.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite part of CloudFormation is how easy it is to create new environments using existing templates. It has made our deployment process smoother and helped our team spend less time on repetitive setup tasks.

What do you dislike most about this product?

What I dislike most about CloudFormation is that troubleshooting stack failures can be difficult because the error messages are sometimes unclear and take time to investigate.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you're considering CloudFormation, start with smaller templates and test changes before production. This helps avoid issues and makes deployments easier to manage.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy
Effective Service

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90 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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+95 Net Emotional Footprint

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

Abhilash V.

User-friendly

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Bharath M.

Automating AWS Resources

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Bala s.

Strong Insights for Cloud Operations

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

AWS CloudFormation

What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation Ratings

How much do users love AWS CloudFormation?

Feature Ratings

Configuration Management

Systems Administration

Agent or Agentless

Dynamic Scalability

Resource Definition

Multi Tenancy

Service Templates

Scripting Support

Resource Availability

Task Process Automation

Workflow Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

AWS CloudFormation Reviews