We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and BMC TrueSight Server Automation 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 works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"...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."
"Intune provides full visibility into all active mobile device users. If their devices are noncompliant with our security policies, I have the flexibility to update them remotely."
"Among the most valuable features are the Company Portal that is built into Intune, and the update rings so that we can manage what types of future updates the devices get."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"It's easy to manage."
"The most beneficial aspect lies in its capability to handle input acquisition and assessment."
"The integration of the solution is very good."
"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 reusability of the solution is valuable."
"The nested stacks would be one of the more valuable features."
"Versioning makes our work easy."
"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."
"With CloudFormation, there is no need to use complicated coding."
"Server Automation's best feature is automated patching. It also helps us automate compliance and report generation. We can even integrate TrueSight Server Automation with a vulnerability management solution to remedy vulnerabilities by applying patches, deploying scripts, or changing registry entries."
"Scalability is good."
"Technical support is good."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"The best feature of the solution is patch automation."
"Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"For an existing customer who has an SCCM, it would need to be upgraded to an MECM first before I can introduce Microsoft Intune."
"Technical support is not that great."
"It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"There could be better error handling. It would be a good way to improve the solution."
"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."
"There is less support for on-premise environments."
"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 speed of the replication process could improve. It can take some time to replicate that could use a speed increase."
"The conditions that can be added in AWS CloudFormation are not as powerful as any programming language."
"CloudFormation is not particularly good at handling cross-account dynamic references. If you try to refer to an object that CloudFormation has created in a separate AWS account, it tends to fall apart. That's because it is a byproduct of the multi-tenant configuration. This is the most glaring shortcoming in my perspective because you can't dynamically reference objects in other accounts that CloudFormation has created, but it is not a shortcoming that you can't overcome. This is the only pain point that I've come across that didn't have a workaround natively. Sometimes the confirmation is slow, and it could be faster. The downside to CloudFormation when you're fully embracing it is that the AWS services do not get released immediately fully CloudFormation enabled. If you need to use the latest AWS service that just got announced or reinvented, you're not going to be able to continue with CloudFormation for the first X number of months. This is because they develop the products separately, and then they hand it to the CloudFormation team, which later on develops a CloudFormation integration. So, if you need to be on the newest thing AWS has, CloudFormation is often going to be a constraint that prevents you from doing that."
"Including certain examples of templates would be advantageous."
"BMC TrueSight Server Automation's scripting needs improvement."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"Without any knowledge of the product, we used the KB articles to start working. As a result, we definitely did not have full knowledge of BMC BladeLogic... They need to provide a minimum of knowledge with training on YouTube or somewhere else."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the product execution. The output's format is not good."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"Another area for improvement is group scheduling if I'm trying to do all the servers. For example, if I want to do all the 2012 Servers - since the patches are the same for all of them - I can't do so."
"TrueSight falls short when we are trying to gather large amounts of data from multiple servers. We need to do these tasks manually because there is no option to populate the data and export it to Excel, which is required. For example, let's say I'm trying to find out how many patches are missing on the servers and which ones have been installed. It's hard to automatically pull each server's data in an Excel format."
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AWS CloudFormation is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 23 reviews while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2. 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 BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Easy to deploy, automatic patching, and scalable". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite and Chef, whereas BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and HashiCorp Terraform. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. BMC TrueSight Server Automation report.
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