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# AWS CloudFormation

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> AWS CloudFormation is designed to help businesses create and manage a collection of Amazon Web Services and third-party application resources in a cloud environment. Employees can utilize built-in templates to replicate the infrastructure in multiple environments and update or delete an entire stack as a single unit, eliminating the need to manage resources individually.
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> Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 106 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 106 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Amazon Web Services
- **Location**: Seattle, US
- **Founded**: 2006

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Usage Based (Free version available) (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: AWS CloudFormation includes a usage-based pricing model. Please contact AWS directly for pricing details.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Chinese, English, European Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Access Controls/Permissions
- Automated Testing
- Change Management
- Compliance Management
- Configuration Management
- Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Deployment
- Cost Management
- Monitoring
- Multi-Cloud Management
- Prioritisation
- Service Catalog
- Version Control

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [Cloud Integration Software](https://www.getapp.co.nz/directory/347/cloud-integration/software)

## Related Categories

- [Cloud Integration Software](https://www.getapp.co.nz/directory/347/cloud-integration/software)
- [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.getapp.co.nz/directory/1327/continuous-integration/software)

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## Reviews

### "Infra-Provisioning Made Exceptional with AWS CloudFormation" — 4.0/5

> **Raamnaaraayan** | *25 September 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: 1. AWS CloudFormation offers me a spectacular platform to build and provision my organization's infrastructure requirements.

2. It provides me the feature of automation with various DevOps software seamlessly.

3. The compliance standards followed for each resource creation is top notch.

4. I can create, modify or delete the stack which is derived from my CloudFormation Template with ease.

5. It brilliantly integrated with multiple third-party software such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes through its fascinating API functionality.
> 
> **Cons**: 1. Once you create the stack in CloudFormation, you won't be able to change the name of the stack.

2. Deep understanding about the usage of scripts is required in order to establish connection with other resources.

3. For troubleshooting, the tracking of error logs in the associated CloudWatch entries is quite challenging in CloudFormation.
> 
> 1\. I make the best out of CloudFormation for performing all my Infra-Implementations in my Dev, QA, Pre-Prod \& Prod Environments.

2. It has amazing community support from which I can refer and practice best strategies for my deployments.

3. For detailed clarification regarding the features, excellent customer service support is provided by AWS.

4. It has a well-designed Documentation which helps me to effectively use the features and integrate with other AWS services.

5. The cost management by making use of its Stack creation is marvelous and no resource will be running in the background once you've decided to delete the stack.

6. For automation of multiple resources, I make use of combining CloudFormation with CodePipeline so that I can deliver my resources without any compromise in its integrity or configurations.

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### "AWS's take on IaC" — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *10 December 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Included as a service in the AWS platform, can be used to provision infrastructure and services.
> 
> **Cons**: It's not vendor neutral which can be a problem with multi-cloud deployment which can be a problem, the competitor Terraform has many more features.
> 
> Overall good, but not the market leader. Would be good to start using IaC but there are better solutions.

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### "A valid alternative for IaC" — 3.0/5

> **Martin** | *24 August 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: - Templates are written in a YAML subset, which is arguably preferable to JSON
- It provides many options to properly manage the stacks lifecycle
- When coupling with Cloud Development Kit, it makes up for a powerful IaC solution for AWS
- As with any other AWS service, you can manage CloudFormation in the best way that fancy your team needs
> 
> **Cons**: - It's hard to understand that some resources that are possible to tag, don't support tagging in the templates
- Templates can get complex over time
> 
> So far it has served us well, but we are moving to CDK in the near future

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### "The best IAC tool for AWS Cloud" — 5.0/5

> **Chetan** | *13 April 2021* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It is easy to provision AWS resources and update them. It supports rollback. It also allows seeing the changes that will be applied using changesets. It is transactional , either all the resources are updated or none are.
> 
> **Cons**: The error messages when running the Cloudformation stacks are sometimes not easy to decipher.
> 
> If your entire infrastructure is in AWS cloud, then this is the best IAC tool. I would say even better than Terraform in certain aspects if you are not aiming multicloud or hybrid cloud

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### "Better Than AZURE??" — 5.0/5

> **Abhilash** | *4 March 2023* | Graphic Design | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: it has great user interface it has user freindly inerface which helps the user easy to navigateeasy to customize and makes chages to the datait aslo has the code controling feature which helps the userthe account authentication and restrictions are easy to add
> 
> **Cons**: there are many features which makes the layout climsyit has ocassional server runtime crashesand it is too much expensive as comppared to its competators like google and microsoft azure
> 
> i've been using this software from an year now,so..far it's been working well .the features and functionality has its own flexubility for the user to use the software.the pricing can be lowered to gain edge over the competetors

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