We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Intune is the central dashboard for compliance and policy management."
"It provides control over all mobile devices that are being connected to the corporate network."
"Compliance and the policies that can be set are the most valuable features."
"We have one MDM that works with Windows, iOS, and Android."
"Autopilot is a great feature. Most users are looking for a zero-touch deployment."
"It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"AWS Cloud automation reduces the time needed to create AWS resources."
"Scripting does what we need to reinstall something from scratch."
"What I found most valuable in AWS CloudFormation is its configurability. The solution is easy to configure. I also like its change management configuration because that's also good."
"The most beneficial aspect lies in its capability to handle input acquisition and assessment."
"Since AWS CloudFormation integrates well with the AWS platform, it facilitates faster deployment. Building templates for AWS services within the solution is also straightforward, making the process easier."
"The integration of the solution is very good."
"The nested stacks would be one of the more valuable features."
"There is a cost-benefit to using CloudFormation that comes about because of the automation that it provides."
"I like the fact that Ansible is agentless."
"The automation is the most valuable feature."
"There are no agents by default, so adding a new server is a matter of a couple lines of configuration (on a new server and the configuration master)."
"It has made our infrastructure more testable. We are able to build our infrastructure in CI, then are more confident in what we are deploying will work, not breaking everything."
"The solution is very simple to use."
"I like Ansible's ease of use. If you have Linux skills, you can create a reusable template for the dependencies and other configurations. I can store the templates in a repository and share them with my customers or other developers. It's a popular solution, so there is a large user base that can share templates."
"It is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"The reason I like Ansible is, first, the coding of it is very straightforward, it's very human-readable. I'm also on a contract, and I can clearly iterate and bring people up to speed very quickly on writing a Playbook compared with writing up a Puppet manifest or a Salt script."
"Enhancements for managing MacOS more comprehensively would be beneficial."
"There is room for improvement in integrating additional features such as Purview and SharePoint activities into Intune."
"What would make this product better is adding more security policies and features in the next upgrade."
"Intune has some limitations when it comes to application updates for third-party applications. You can schedule an update, but when it's a package setup, you need to supercede and replace it each time."
"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."
"It would really be helpful to have the option to manage server operating systems as well, like Windows Server, at least. That way, we could scrap the use of SCCM, which requires a lot of on-premises infrastructure."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"Creating the inline policies is not great."
"This tool is not intuitive and there are others that are easier to understand."
"Error-handling features can be improved."
"Including certain examples of templates would be advantageous."
"The speed of the replication process could improve. It can take some time to replicate that could use a speed increase."
"For improvement, it's crucial that AWS provides options in terms of computing services, DB related services, and machine learning solutions. If I'm not hands-on with a particular service, like machine learning applications, I struggle to write the CloudFormation code."
"The solution needs to offer better support to other cloud vendors."
"One area where AWS CloudFormation could improve is by offering more flexibility in creating custom templates."
"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"They should think of this product as an end-to-end solution and begin to develop it that way."
"Improvements should be made in terms of execution speed, which is, I believe, the most lacking feature. Aside from that, re-triggering a failed task is another useful feature."
"What we need is model-driven, declarative software infrastructure management. However, things tend to break with new versions, requiring a lot of work to fix…The focus should be on improving the support for Ansible in the area of AI coding."
"Documentation could be improved. Many times, if I'm looking for something, I have to Google it in a lot of places, then figure out what the best approach will be. There are some best practices documents, but they don't give you the information."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
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AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 28 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.4, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS CloudFormation writes "Pretty easy setup with great automations for provisioning that save time and money". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and Chef, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BMC TrueSight Server Automation. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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