User Reviews of AWS CloudFormation

Updated January 2026

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AWS CloudFormation review

Kishor Kawale
Kishor Kawale
Full-stack Developer / AWS Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Infrastructure management becomes more efficient with automated deployments using...
Improvements are needed for sharing resources between template files, especially when using AWS SAM. Documentation can be difficult to understand, and I suggest AWS provide small instructional videos on their website. Additionally, creating microservices and connecting multiple APIs into a single API gateway can be challenging;...
AWS CloudFormation review

Sridivya Chillappa
Sridivya Chillappa
application security engineer
Automation and consistency in infrastructure deployment provide a robust foundation
When it comes to the challenges with AWS CloudFormation, I faced a few challenges. One challenge is associated with large infrastructures; the template can become very long and hard to manage. Sometimes, the error messages during stack creation or update can be very hard to troubleshoot. Managing the correct order of resource creation and...

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