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.
Company Details
Need Assistance?
We're here to help you with understanding our reports and the data inside to help you make decisions.
Get AssistanceAWS CloudFormation Ratings
Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Download the entire Product Scorecard
to access more information on AWS CloudFormation.
90 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+94 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?
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Helps Innovate
- Saves Time
- Fair
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
Footprint
Negative
Neutral
Positive
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
shruti A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2024
powerful Automation Tool,But Can Complex to scale
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
AWS CloudFormation stands out from other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools due to several unique features and attributes: Deep Integration with AWS Services: Native AWS Integration: CloudFormation is tightly integrated with a broad range of AWS services, providing seamless deployment and management of resources within the AWS ecosystem.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Deep Integration with the AWS Ecosystem Deep Integration with AWS Services: One of the most favored aspects of AWS CloudFormation is its deep and seamless integration with the extensive suite of AWS services. This tight coupling offers several significant advantages: Comprehensive Service Coverage: CloudFormation supports a wide range of AWS services, often providing early support for new features and services as they are released. This allows users to leverage the latest AWS innovations quickly and efficiently. Consistency and Reliability:
What do you dislike most about this product?
while AWS CloudFormation is a powerful and integral tool for managing AWS infrastructure, its complexity, verbosity, slow iteration cycles, and limited flexibility in certain areas are common pain points for users. These factors can make it challenging for new users to get started and for experienced users to efficiently manage large and complex environments.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you’re considering using AWS CloudFormation for your infrastructure management and automation needs, here are several recommendations to help you get started and make the most of the platform: 1. Understand the Basics Learn the Fundamentals: Familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CloudFormation templates, stacks, and the AWS services you plan to use. Start Small: Begin with simple templates to get a feel for the syntax and structure. Gradually increase complexity as you become more comfortable.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Please tell us why you think this review should be flagged.
Bharath M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2024
Automating AWS Resources
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Please tell us why you think this review should be flagged.
Akalezi T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2024
Fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
It's not very different from Terrafoam, just AWS centric
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect is the documentation. It was very easy to pick up
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing...
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If your production environment is already AWS, deploying applications with cloud formation is worth it
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Please tell us why you think this review should be flagged.
Get Instant Access<br>to this Report
Get Instant Access
to this Report
Unlock your first report with just a business email. Register to access our entire library.
© 2024 SoftwareReviews.com. All rights reserved.