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."...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"For the price, the features included with Microsoft are appealing."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"The central administration con dashboard is very easy to use and provides very good oversight on all that needs to be monitored."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"The most valuable feature is probably mobile device management. Small businesses are coming under greater scrutiny and requirements for compliance as time goes on. We don't have to worry about a VPN because we can manage these devices, control company data, and lock users out. If needed, we can remotely wipe devices and deadman-switch them."
"We can securely manage both company-owned devices and personal devices enrolled in our BYOD program."
"I appreciate the flexibility of infrastructure as code. With CloudFormation, we can define ground rules, control usage limits, and scale our infrastructure up or down programmatically. Having this level of control through code on infra is a major benefit. That's the beauty of CloudFormation."
"The CloudFormation template can be reused to create multiple stacks, reducing duplications and improving our infrastructure."
"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."
"The most valuable features of AWS CloudFormation are all the resources documentation is located in one location, simple resource reverting, and ease of use of the full package for new users."
"With CloudFormation, there is no need to use complicated coding."
"CloudFormation itself is free to use. You will be charged for the resources you deploy using CloudFormation."
"Its ability to treat infrastructure's code is valuable. It makes things automatable and reproducible."
"The most valuable feature of AWS CloudFormation is the simple tracking of infrastructure."
"The initial setup is super easy, it takes like two minutes. Literally a one-click deployment."
"The solution is scalable and provides over 100 rules."
"The scalability is a ten out of ten."
"Installing the instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean."
"There's quite a lot of development that they can do within their Intune dashboard. I think there are too many lines hyperlinked to move you around. Others, in contrast, give you a simple dashboard and an intuitive administrative walkthrough."
"It would be great if Intune offered better data protection controls for BYOD Windows PCs."
"We would like to see support for Chrome and/or devices for Chromebooks."
"Having a dedicated configuration server that assists in modifying the configuration service, and creating personalized structures, interfaces, and web services could enhance usability."
"They need to add more group policies. Intune currently does not have many group policies that you can deploy. Its reporting, which is very limited at the moment, also needs improvement. It will be great if they can add report customization. Its stability needs to be improved. Sometimes, when you register a device in Intune, it doesn't show up instantly on the engine portal on the admin side. They need to provide better support for complicated issues. They also have a long turnaround time."
"There is improvement needed in integrating with the installed Office solutions versions, such as Office 2019. The Office 365 integrates without a problem."
"Microsoft Intune could improve by being more user-friendly and having it geared toward device management. The graphic interface is not very good."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"For a beginner, it's kind of difficult to set up. So, the user does need some knowledge in order to do it."
"One area where AWS CloudFormation could improve is by offering more flexibility in creating custom templates."
"The solution needs to offer better support to other cloud vendors."
"There could be better error handling. It would be a good way to improve the solution."
"The solution must enable more hands-on designing of the templates."
"If Amazon could extend CloudFormation to other cloud platforms, that would be good. Currently, it is only limited to AWS."
"Provisioning a large environment or a large number of services takes a bit more time than with Terraform."
"If you are a developer or a more technical person, it's very difficult to learn the complete syntax or because CloudFormation includes a new way to write infrastructure code."
"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."
"The solution is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages."
"There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark."
"Improvements are needed as per customer requirements."
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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