We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and BigFix 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."Technical support, in general, has been quite helpful."
"The Autopilot feature is fantastic. It is a Microsoft product, so it deals best with Microsoft operating systems, but it can integrate with iOS, Mac OS, Linux, and Android."
"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."
"It is a very helpful solution."
"Mobile device management is most valuable."
"Conditional access helps me control uncontrolled access."
"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."
"It is quite policy-enabled, so you can build pretty much any policy to manage remote endpoints."
"The nested stacks would be one of the more valuable features."
"The reusability of the solution is valuable."
"Automations make it pretty easy to provision AWS, development, or deployment environments."
"Versioning makes our work easy."
"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."
"What I like best about AWS CloudFormation is that it is a quick and simple way to deploy various applications, like WordPress."
"Its ability to treat infrastructure's code is valuable. It makes things automatable and reproducible."
"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."
"It allows for visibility into the OT, the industrial environments, that didn't exist before which is a big piece and has benefited my organization. Second, the speed at which people can patch is night and day versus SCCM scan or another similar solution."
"BigFix technical support is good."
"I like the inventory and life cycle management feature."
"It's enabled us to have a highly successful endpoint patching program for the past decade. It's been enormously successful there. It's also become a core part of many of our business processes, from compliance monitoring of endpoints, encryption management, key escrow, and local administrator password escrow. It's built into our inventory. It's very much everywhere."
"The most valuable aspect of BigFix is its ability to patch desktops. While we have complete control over servers and can easily push patches to them, desktops pose a greater risk for leaks and vulnerabilities if patches are not installed in a timely manner. By using BigFix, we have significantly improved our ability to patch desktops, whether they are laptops, desktops, or other mobile devices used by end-users."
"BigFix is incredibly fast and accurate in patching, reporting, and remediation."
"It has plugins development options, which are great."
"The most valuable feature of BigFix is the reporting tool and patching Windows."
"I would like the ability to install the agent on devices from suppliers, which would enable us to implement a zero-trust strategy for guest devices."
"Microsoft Intune fails a lot when it comes to device compliance."
"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."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"An issue we have run into with Microsoft Endpoint Manager is that we cannot patch third-party products like Adobe and Chrome with it."
"There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"Microsoft Intune has a latency response time issue. The latency has room for improvement."
"The solution needs to offer better support to other cloud vendors."
"Including certain examples of templates would be advantageous."
"They could improve the product's capability to handle circular dependencies more effectively."
"The solution must enable more hands-on designing of the templates."
"The conditions that can be added in AWS CloudFormation are not as powerful as any programming language."
"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."
"There could be better error handling. It would be a good way to improve the solution."
"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."
"I would like to see more custom content."
"I'd definitely like to see additional feature parody in the web UI versus the console. There are certain things that you can only do in the console and they're very cumbersome to do, like secure parameters, for example. That's definitely something that has a wide degree of utility but it needs to be easier to surface. At this particular juncture between the transition, between the legacy console and the web UI, it's hard to justify dealing with the cumbersome aspects of the legacy console when theoretically everything's been through the web UI."
"In-place and OS upgrades can be improved."
"The solution could improve by adding support drivers for different systems and equipment. When you have a lot of different computers if they could fix how to install any updates, firmware, or drivers for different systems or servers it would be good."
"The reporting and dashboard parts have room for improvement."
"BigFix can improve the way machines report back to the console. In the external relay management environment, it has become more of a hybrid environment with most of the machines not being on-site. The need of having public-facing reporting items interconnected is becoming more and more crucial. In general, the reporting could use some enhancement."
"I remember doing restarts a few times. So, making sure that it is rock solid from an executable perspective is important."
"The tool should be more friendly in terms of Web UI and should be having better vulnerability scanning mechanisms so a third-party application is not required to fulfill that aspect."
AWS CloudFormation is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 26 reviews while BigFix is ranked 5th in Configuration Management with 91 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while BigFix 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 BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite and Chef, whereas BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Tanium, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. BigFix report.
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