We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and Quest KACE Systems Management 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."A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."
"We can manage and standardize security across your environment, identify problems, receive alerts, and so on. That's its purpose, and that's also why it's so good."
"As the solution is a software as a service, the scalability is unlimited."
"It's easy to manage and easy to configure."
"CloudFormation gives us control of AWS and any Cloud infrastructure. It creates the whole stack for Cloud services technologies so it's easy to manage the whole system."
"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."
"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 CloudFormation template can be reused to create multiple stacks, reducing duplications and improving our infrastructure."
"CloudFormation itself is free to use. You will be charged for the resources you deploy using CloudFormation."
"Scripting does what we need to reinstall something from scratch."
"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 integration of the solution is very good."
"We can get the majority of what we need with this product and do not have to spend money on something else."
"The scripting is a very valuable feature, as it saves us time on pushing certain things out to the users, such as software and patches."
"KACE automatically tracks this information and saves it for me, allowing me to call it up on the dashboard. For example, if I need to find Juliano's computer in the system, I don't need to search through endless spreadsheets. I just search for "Juliano" in KACE. KACE also lists other details like the last login user."
"KACE’s knowledge-based articles are very good."
"It also does patch management. At the moment, I'm rolling out a new feature update, 20.8.2, and it's a great challenge because we have to deploy it to 1,200 computers in the home office. We want to do it without interrupting production, but KACE is reliable and it's easy to adapt it to my needs for how and when to deploy the feature update."
"This product made the job easy to do without having to go put hands on the machines."
"Pretty much all of the features are valuable. The inventory is very helpful to be able to keep track of our devices. The deployments make it easy to deploy new software packages or upgrade packages. The help desk is also a great tool for tracking problems and problem tickets."
"I like how when you click on the device, it shows you everything that has changed as well as the software versioning. I am really enjoying the inventory aspect of it."
"Microsoft needs to enhance device-level security, as sometimes when using Microsoft Intune, the device's operating system becomes stuck and requires a full uninstall to remove the Intune bug."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"Enhancements for managing MacOS more comprehensively would be beneficial."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"We need the capabilities of the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) to be enhanced through Intune instead of Azure."
"In the past, I raised some tickets for the enhancement feature, which was missing in Intune."
"Due to the abundance of features, there's a lot to organize, which makes managing and setting up the solution challenging. The setup is immense, and it would be good to see improvement in this area."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"Error-handling features can be improved."
"They could improve the product's capability to handle circular dependencies more effectively."
"One area where AWS CloudFormation could improve is by offering more flexibility in creating custom templates."
"If Amazon could extend CloudFormation to other cloud platforms, that would be good. Currently, it is only limited to AWS."
"Creating the inline policies is not great."
"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."
"Including certain examples of templates would be advantageous."
"The speed of the replication process could improve. It can take some time to replicate that could use a speed increase."
"We had issues with the tool's support. We are a Dutch firm and everything has to be in Dutch. We were not able to do the alerts. You were required to tweak them a lot to get them in the language that you preferred. The solution's support depended on the person that you got online. Sometimes, the response was fast and other times you needed to wait a long time. The support also depended on the levels of support that you had requested."
"I think it should have the ability to have the applications automatically update. It would be really helpful if this would override what the user might choose to do."
"There is always room for improvement. However, the system does most of what we need at this moment."
"There isn't a lot they need to improve with the solution itself at this point. It is pretty close to providing a single pane of glass for everything that we need for endpoint management specifically on all devices. There is very little that it doesn't provide for us, and for those, we have to go to other methods. There are some of the patching solutions that it doesn't take care of for us. So, we have to do those manually on the devices, and that's really the biggest thing. It doesn't do patching really well for non-Microsoft applications. The major application updates, particularly Windows updates, don't function nearly as well, but, for the vast majority of things, it does just fine. If they could improve in this aspect, that'd be great, but I don't know if they're going to be able to do that."
"They could make the booting solution easier for different things, e.g., easier to insert drivers. They could make it easier to create a new image and put it onto the server. Those would be some nice solutions. They could make it so that somebody who has no knowledge at all can do it. That would be really nice. Because every time, until I get it memorized, I still need to go back to the training, the manual, or Google it to figure it out again. If they would make it a lot easier, to where a nine-year-old could do it, that would be really cool. If they made it easier, I could have more people managing the images on the server, instead of just one or two people."
"It could be designed a little bit more intuitively in terms of administration."
"Imaging becomes a problem when you start to try to go beyond doing more than thirty or forty machines at a time. We initially tried to do that virtually and it just, it wouldn't work."
"KACE implemented the possibility of reducing the network speed of the KACE agent. You can set it so that it takes whatever network speed you want or you can set it to 5 Mb, to save network speed. You set it for all the computers, but it would be preferable to separate between VPN connections in our home office and the local area. It would be great to be able to set separate speeds for different VLANs."
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AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 27 reviews while Quest KACE Systems Management is ranked 10th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while Quest KACE Systems Management is rated 8.8. 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 Quest KACE Systems Management writes "Easy to use, saves us time, and increases IT productivity". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Microsoft Configuration Manager, whereas Quest KACE Systems Management is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, BigFix, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Automox. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. Quest KACE Systems Management report.
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