We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and Microsoft Intune 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 is easy to work from the console and deploy new database services."
"Automations make it pretty easy to provision AWS, development, or deployment environments."
"Versioning makes our work easy."
"It allows defining the infrastructure as code using templates, which describe the desired state of the infrastructure."
"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."
"The most beneficial aspect lies in its capability to handle input acquisition and assessment."
"With CloudFormation, there is no need to use complicated coding."
"Scripting does what we need to reinstall something from scratch."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"Intune provides full endpoint visibility and IT control across device platforms. You can individualize it for your company with the Intune Company Portal app."
"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."
"There is a single pane of glass for user access and a single sign-on facility for the user. If you have already logged in to Microsoft Azure or on-premises, you can redirect directly to Microsoft Endpoint Manager, monitor all your security threats, and analyze the data associated with the application in a single, unified way."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"We have one MDM that works with Windows, iOS, and Android."
"The ability to send configurations to our systems is valuable, particularly as we don't have a regular Windows AD server. Our current environment doesn't have a Windows AD, which limits our ability to push GPOs. However, this is where the solution can step in and help us push policies."
"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."
"What could be improved in AWS CloudFormation is its user interface, in terms of graphical design, I prefer WYSIWYG."
"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."
"For improvement, it's crucial that AWS provides options in terms of computing services, DB related services, and machine learning solutions. If I'm not hands-on with a particular service, like machine learning applications, I struggle to write the CloudFormation code."
"There could be better error handling. It would be a good way to improve the solution."
"GUI could be improved by adding graphical components."
"Provisioning a large environment or a large number of services takes a bit more time than with Terraform."
"They could improve the product's capability to handle circular dependencies more effectively."
"Creating the inline policies is not great."
"It would be nice to have a location tracker for the mobile device management tool. I'm not sure if it exists but hasn't been configured or if it's missing, but we've been unable to utilize the location features."
"They need to add more group policies. Intune currently does not have many group policies that you can deploy. Its reporting, which is very limited at the moment, also needs improvement. It will be great if they can add report customization. Its stability needs to be improved. Sometimes, when you register a device in Intune, it doesn't show up instantly on the engine portal on the admin side. They need to provide better support for complicated issues. They also have a long turnaround time."
"When Microsoft Intune is used with different android devices it does not always work as it is supposed to."
"I would like to see the ability to deploy custom packages as a Windows 64-bit package, as opposed to the Windows 32-bit, which is the only one available now."
"Microsoft Intune lacks the ability to provide seamless remote assistance or remote control."
"The reporting and cost have room for improvement."
"Intune should be much more granular in terms of supporting more Android cellular devices."
"No option to do end-to-en macOS management. Slow implementation of policies."
AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 28 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 3rd in Configuration Management with 165 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. 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 Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Microsoft Configuration Manager, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl and Microsoft Entra ID. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. Microsoft Intune report.
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