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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90 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Continually Improving Product
- Fair
- Helps Innovate
- Saves Time
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AWS CloudFormation Reviews
Shubham K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2023
Great product for IaC implementation
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
since it is native to AWS cloud and has JSON as its DSL it favours operations teams far better.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite aspect is that it has zero cost attached to it and we are charged for only the resources provisioned.
What do you dislike most about this product?
What I dislike is it doesn't have support for yaml as a domain specific language.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend this for operations teams working on AWS as part of implementing IaC.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Reddi Bhaskar K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2023
Features disappoint
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
It's not supporting to migrate the scripts other than AWS.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Migrate the scripts from one AWS account to other AWS account with less effort
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's not supporting other platforms
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Can improve the feature like support all cloud platforms
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Michael N.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Entertainment
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2023
Excellent cloud-based deployment manager service
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
It's built into AWS which makes is a good proprietary IaS tool
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is sometimes not general enough, like if I wanted to implement something in GCP I can't do it in the same config as cloud formation
What do you dislike most about this product?
Terraform is just a better all-around IaS tool
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The YAML format is super intuitive
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Inspires Innovation
- Saves Time
Cons
- Commodity Features
- Less Effective Service
- Vendor Friendly Policies