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 allows our clients to have the confidence to centrally manage policies for security. It helps them in securing the organization from a technology aspect."
"Intune is effective because of the configuration management and endpoint security it provides. The graphical interface makes it easier to configure and deploy devices."
"Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"We are a remote company, and the product helps us manage the global endpoints. It helps us natively manage the endpoints in the cloud from anywhere."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"The technical support of Microsoft Intune is good."
"We use a local Active Directory, but we weren't able to manage all our on-site systems without a solution like Intune, and we needed to deploy software like VPNs and other things. It's seamless now to to this through Intune."
"The nested stacks would be one of the more valuable features."
"With CloudFormation, there is no need to use complicated coding."
"The reusability of the solution is valuable."
"There is a cost-benefit to using CloudFormation that comes about because of the automation that it provides."
"The most beneficial aspect lies in its capability to handle input acquisition and assessment."
"I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We use it every day."
"What I like best about AWS CloudFormation is that it is a quick and simple way to deploy various applications, like WordPress."
"It is easy to work from the console and deploy new database services."
"The solution is scalable and provides over 100 rules."
"The initial setup is super easy, it takes like two minutes. Literally a one-click deployment."
"The scalability is a ten out of ten."
"Installing the instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean."
"It just doesn't handle software updates well at all by itself. You need to be a scripting wizard to make those happen properly, or you use third-party tools. The Windows feature updates are very difficult to implement. I would like to see a proprietary built-in remote control tool. I know that they have Team Viewer integrated, but it is not seamless. It would be nice if they had a seamless remote desktop capability directly from the Intune console."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"The reporting needs to be a bit more interactive."
"It would be nice to have a location tracker for the mobile device management tool. I'm not sure if it exists but hasn't been configured or if it's missing, but we've been unable to utilize the location features."
"The solution requires Mac support."
"It would be great if Intune offered better data protection controls for BYOD Windows PCs."
"Regarding mobile devices, Intune is good, but there are other services that I would say are ahead of Intune from an administration and reporting point of view."
"The product needs to upgrade itself when the server is overloaded."
"Creating the inline policies is not great."
"One area where AWS CloudFormation could improve is by offering more flexibility in creating custom templates."
"It would help all users if AWS improved the auto-generation of the CloudFormation file."
"Provisioning a large environment or a large number of services takes a bit more time than with Terraform."
"The product should be made cloud-agnostic, allowing users to deploy the same environment with minimal tweaks across different cloud platforms, similar to Terraform. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have the ability to manage templates outside of the AWS environment."
"The solution must enable more hands-on designing of the templates."
"Error-handling features can be improved."
"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 is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages."
"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark."
AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 28 reviews while AWS Config is ranked 15th in Configuration Management with 4 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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