
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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91 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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- Continually Improving Product
- Fair
- Helps Innovate
- Efficient Service
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AWS CloudFormation Reviews
Cornelia E.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2023
Powerful tool for AWS automation
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
AWS Cloudformation enables the provisioning and management of different resources within AWS. To get you started with the resource of your choosing, simple templates are easily accessible.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My best feature of CloudFormation is that it provides centralized resource management and monitoring. This avoids manual setup and lowers the possibility of mistakes because it is an IaC tool. The intended configuration specified in the template is followed when using CloudFormation to deploy your infrastructure.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Due to improper IDE integration, debugging cloud-based applications is only possible for AWS resources.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
AWS CloudFormation works well in situations when all of your resources must be provisioned on AWS, but it is not appropriate for deployments in hybrid clouds. Learning is relatively simple for a new person. The template's amount of modification, which is intended exclusively for AWS services, is excellent. There is also a user interface tool that allows us to drag and drop the services we want, and it creates an extremely user-friendly yaml file.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Ritika N.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2023
Easy to use and managed, but steep learning curve
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
It's severless ompared to kubernetes which is a huge advantage
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Completely serverless and manages service
What do you dislike most about this product?
Not enough tutorials for beginners
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Great product! But need a prior knowledge of aws
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
Cons
- Less Transparent

Nayan D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2023
Steep learning curve - IAAC for AWS
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates AWS CloudFormation from other similar products?
Integration within AWS services
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
- Automate infra provisioning for AWS cloud and helps in maintaining hygiene - Template builder functionatiy for 0-1 usecase from a stack
What do you dislike most about this product?
- Documentation for complex usecases - Multi cloud support (Terraform) - yaml can get overwhelming
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Good and robust product for AWS automation. If you use multi cloud architecture do check Terraform over this,
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Inspires Innovation