We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and AWS Config 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."It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"Stable solution at a good price."
"The solution has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"It's very informative when there is an error. It allows us to backtrace where the error is and resolve that ourselves. It's a bit of a Swiss Army penknife. We find that it fixes most issues."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"Remote Wipe and Autopilot is one of the best features."
"The key benefit of Intune is its integration with the Microsoft ecosystem."
"There is a cost-benefit to using CloudFormation that comes about because of the automation that it provides."
"It is easy to work from the console and deploy new database services."
"CloudFormation gives us control of AWS and any Cloud infrastructure. It creates the whole stack for Cloud services technologies so it's easy to manage the whole system."
"The integration of the solution is very good."
"AWS CloudFormation has automated the resource-building process, thereby removing the scope of human errors. We can tag the resources which help the billing process."
"What I like best about AWS CloudFormation is that it is a quick and simple way to deploy various applications, like WordPress."
"The most valuable feature of AWS CloudFormation is the simple tracking of infrastructure."
"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 solution is scalable and provides over 100 rules."
"Installing the instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean."
"The initial setup is super easy, it takes like two minutes. Literally a one-click deployment."
"We faced issues with macOS support. The product should have better inventory and asset management."
"The add-ons must be integrated into the solution."
"Reporting could be improved. It needs to be more expensive and robust."
"Intune does not provide real-time visibility."
"Some enrollment features could be improved."
"What would make this product better is adding more security policies and features in the next upgrade."
"The mobile and tablet-based versions need improvement because they are not completely user-friendly, compared to the web version. Also, data synchronization with our existing asset manager, the synchronization between multiple assets and multiple devices, takes a lot of time due to the security scanning. It should be reduced."
"The feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."
"The speed of the replication process could improve. It can take some time to replicate that could use a speed increase."
"This tool is not intuitive and there are others that are easier to understand."
"For a beginner, it's kind of difficult to set up. So, the user does need some knowledge in order to do it."
"AWS CloudFormation allows you to use the code templates written in JSON and YAML, but not directly in Python. Adding this feature would be beneficial."
"Provisioning a large environment or a large number of services takes a bit more time than with Terraform."
"If Amazon could extend CloudFormation to other cloud platforms, that would be good. Currently, it is only limited to AWS."
"The code we write in AWS CloudFormation is pretty big compared to Terraform. We need to have more modules in the solution. A library should also be there where we can save code lines. A dashboard feature would be good for designers."
"What could be improved in AWS CloudFormation is its user interface, in terms of graphical design, I prefer WYSIWYG."
"There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark."
"The solution is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages."
"The reboot process for AWS instances could be improved. Microsoft Azure does not have this problem, so AWS could consider making their instances more robust. You would not need to reboot your instances frequently to replace the hardware and stuff. They can look for a better approach or mechanism to improve in the future. The concern is that you need to plan for the outage when you reboot an instance. You need to have a maintenance window where you can properly reboot the instance without affecting your application. When Amazon announces that you need to reboot an instance and are not ready, this becomes a problem."
AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 28 reviews while AWS Config is ranked 15th in Configuration Management with 3 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.4, while AWS Config is rated 9.0. 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 AWS Config writes "A cloud solution to host application with smooth instance installation and performance upgrade". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Microsoft Configuration Manager, whereas AWS Config is most compared with AWS Systems Manager. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. AWS Config report.
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