We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and Microsoft Configuration Manager 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."
"The ability to switch between Affinity and non-Affinity enrollment is great."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"Stable solution at a good price."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We use it every day."
"The solution has helped with automation. I don't have to worry about provisioning machines and ensuring everything is set up. AWS CloudFormation takes care of the entire infrastructure for me."
"What I like best about AWS CloudFormation is that it is a quick and simple way to deploy various applications, like WordPress."
"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 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."
"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."
"Automations make it pretty easy to provision AWS, development, or deployment environments."
"AWS Cloud automation reduces the time needed to create AWS resources."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"SCCM does everything from A to Z for a Windows operating system."
"Technical support is very helpful and very responsive."
"This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system."
"With the SCCM inventory, we found a lot of rogue applications. We were able to identify them, find out who was running them, and either put them on our application list or remove them."
"Patching is the main feature because SCCM is made to control the entire environment without manually interpreting. So it is good to use for patching."
"I like the data collection."
"The backend of Microsoft Intune needs to be improved. We have seen a little bit of delay as compared to other MDM solutions. That needs to be improved. A little bit more granularity should also be added"
"Intune has some limitations when it comes to application updates for third-party applications. You can schedule an update, but when it's a package setup, you need to supercede and replace it each time."
"It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies."
"The product needs to upgrade itself when the server is overloaded."
"Could benefit from user having more control over devices."
"There are some issues using the solution with macOS and iOS, and it offers limited granular control with them. Intune works better on Windows and Android."
"I wanted to check if there is any provision at the Intune level to restrict certain things, such as a website, but unfortunately, that feature is available only in Microsoft Defender. Intune has web filtering capabilities, but they are only useful for protection from malicious websites, whereas we would like to be able to restrict a website. For example, YouTube is a clean website. No one would identify it as a malicious website, but if we want to stop the end-users from going to that website, we have to go for another product, such as Microsoft Defender or another third-party proxy solution. It would be great if this capability is included in Intune."
"Enhancements for managing MacOS more comprehensively would be beneficial."
"The conditions that can be added in AWS CloudFormation are not as powerful as any programming language."
"The solution must enable more hands-on designing of the templates."
"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."
"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."
"Creating the inline policies is not great."
"The speed of the replication process could improve. It can take some time to replicate that could use a speed increase."
"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."
"Based on my experience with SCCM 2016, the main, big issue is not having a good user-friendly environment. It needs much better GUI."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could improve the integration."
"It would be nice to have everything in one place. Now they have Intune for the desktops and SCCM to handle their servers."
"It would be of benefit if Configuration Manager could be connected/integrated with multiple Microsoft Intune subscriptions rather than just one (the current limit)."
"I would like to see an agentless version of the solution."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
"The solution can be improved by speeding up the synchronizing of the policies on the devices."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
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AWS CloudFormation is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 26 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Configuration Manager 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 Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and AWS Systems Manager. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager report.
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