We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and AWS Config 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."Maturity makes it a stable product."
"While Microsoft Intune boasts a wide range of features, its user-friendliness and bundled licensing cost are key considerations for me."
"The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types, we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager(MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company detail on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."
"The main advantage is that Intune performs its intended functions effectively."
"Stable solution at a good price."
"While I don't think you can ever have full visibility and control, Intune certainly allows us to see the applications being used and tells us if things like Windows patches aren't applied to machines. It does a good job. That visibility makes life a little easier."
"It is helpful for managing devices anytime and any place without requiring dependency on the local networks."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"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."
"The reusability of the solution is valuable."
"Versioning makes our work easy."
"The CloudFormation template can be reused to create multiple stacks, reducing duplications and improving our infrastructure."
"The integration of the solution is very good."
"There is a cost-benefit to using CloudFormation that comes about because of the automation that it provides."
"It is easy to work from the console and deploy new database services."
"Automations make it pretty easy to provision AWS, development, or deployment environments."
"Installing the instances and performing upgrades is smooth and clean."
"The initial setup is super easy, it takes like two minutes. Literally a one-click deployment."
"The solution is scalable and provides over 100 rules."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"There should be more focus on mobile device security and integration."
"There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"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"
"In terms of what can be improved, I am looking for better enhancements regarding Apple management, not only on the mobile device, but also on the laptop."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"Provisioning a large environment or a large number of services takes a bit more time than with Terraform."
"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."
"One area where AWS CloudFormation could improve is by offering more flexibility in creating custom templates."
"Creating the inline policies is not great."
"It would help all users if AWS improved the auto-generation of the CloudFormation file."
"The product should be made cloud-agnostic, allowing users to deploy the same environment with minimal tweaks across different cloud platforms, similar to Terraform. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have the ability to manage templates outside of the AWS environment."
"Including certain examples of templates would be advantageous."
"They could improve the product's capability to handle circular dependencies more effectively."
"There is room for improvement in built-in tools, they are not up to the mark."
"The solution is missing a configuration that can assist us when writing our programming languages."
"The reboot process for AWS instances could be improved. Microsoft Azure does not have this problem, so AWS could consider making their instances more robust. You would not need to reboot your instances frequently to replace the hardware and stuff. They can look for a better approach or mechanism to improve in the future. The concern is that you need to plan for the outage when you reboot an instance. You need to have a maintenance window where you can properly reboot the instance without affecting your application. When Amazon announces that you need to reboot an instance and are not ready, this becomes a problem."
AWS CloudFormation is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 26 reviews while AWS Config is ranked 16th in Configuration Management with 3 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while AWS Config is rated 9.0. 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 AWS Config writes "A cloud solution to host application with smooth instance installation and performance upgrade". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite and Chef, whereas AWS Config is most compared with AWS Systems Manager. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. AWS Config report.
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