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AWS Cloud​Formation

Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
Category
AWS Cloud​Formation
8.9 /10

What is AWS Cloud​Formation?

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 Cloud​Formation Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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 Cloud​Formation?

0% Negative
5% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Fair
  • Includes Product Enhancements

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Dynamic Scalability

88

Configuration Management

88

Resource Availability

87

Task Process Automation

87

Resource Definition

87

Systems Administration

87

Service Templates

86

Agent or Agentless

85

Workflow Support

85

Scripting Support

84

Multi Tenancy

84

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

89

Breadth of Features

88

Quality of Features

87

Vendor Support

86

Ease of Data Integration

86

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

85

Ease of Customization

85

Ease of IT Administration

85

Availability and Quality of Training

84

Ease of Implementation

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

AWS Cloud​Formation Reviews

Khushal B.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Education
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Feature Rich Cloud​Formation

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates AWS Cloud​Formation from other similar products?

AWS Cloud​Formation is one of the most favorite products in aws because it provides infrastructure automation with easy steps.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

sometimes you just need drag and drop features in Cloud​Formation. very good in terms of automation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

the only disadvantage it is based on AWS resources only.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

if you are using AWS for infrastructure or you need to automate a few tasks. go with Cloud​Formation.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Achal V.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2022

Great product for IAC

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates AWS Cloud​Formation from other similar products?

Terraform, ansible, chef

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

you have the option you write code in both YAML and JSON, and you have a choice of cloud formation linter which really helps you to code fast.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Cloudformation only works with AWS cloud whereas other options like terraform and ansible as cloud agnostic.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The product is excellent and you have lots of options to deploy which include deploying via console, pipeline, and AWS CLI. Cfn can deploy all the AWS resources including lambda functions, pipelines, roles and policies.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity

Mario R.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Good product with steep learning curve

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates AWS Cloud​Formation from other similar products?

AWS does so many things with cloudformation. Every aws cloud engineer should know about it

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Infrastructure as code

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not easy to learn and need to have knowledge of the aws services

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Cloudformation is aws specific, if in future you can consider moving to another cloud provider then it will not be helpful

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