We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and Red Hat Satellite 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."Intune enables us to manage our devices from anywhere."
"The many policies available in Microsoft Intune for managing our devices are valuable."
"The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"I haven't used other mobile device management solutions, but compared to SCCM, we eliminate a lot of on-premises infrastructure and maintenance by using Intune."
"The Microsoft Windows Autopilot and Defender policies are the most valuable features of this solution."
"A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We use it every day."
"What I found most valuable in AWS CloudFormation is its configurability. The solution is easy to configure. I also like its change management configuration because that's also good."
"The most beneficial aspect lies in its capability to handle input acquisition and assessment."
"There is a cost-benefit to using CloudFormation that comes about because of the automation that it provides."
"The CloudFormation template can be reused to create multiple stacks, reducing duplications and improving our infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of AWS CloudFormation is the simple tracking of infrastructure."
"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."
"AWS Cloud automation reduces the time needed to create AWS resources."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"You don't need to depend on any third party. It's a complete solution for patch and configuration management when integrated with the existing system."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to process patching and updates completely offline without an internet connection."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Satellite are its support, simplicity, and patch management."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you don't have to expose your mission-critical environment to the Internet. With the Satellite system in place, it acts as a barrier between your Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"The most valuable feature is the management of the distributed tool we use in the Red Hat Linux Servers."
"In the next release, I would like a feature to be able to properly lock down the device. For example, if an attacker or somebody steals the phone, you can be sure that the pin cannot be broken."
"The feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."
"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."
"The reporting and cost have room for improvement."
"It would help if administrators could pinpoint the exact location of a stolen device to help law enforcement retrieve it and apprehend the suspect."
"There could be more wizard-driven policy development or creation. Some of the policies can get quite complex. If they have a wizard that assists the administrators in creating the policy, that will be a great job."
"The product needs to upgrade itself when the server is overloaded."
"There should be more support for macOS. Even though macOS is supported by Intune and Microsoft is working very hard to get more features into Intune to manage macOS, that's one thing they can give a lot more attention to."
"What could be improved in AWS CloudFormation is its user interface, in terms of graphical design, I prefer WYSIWYG."
"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."
"AWS CloudFormation allows you to use the code templates written in JSON and YAML, but not directly in Python. Adding this feature would be beneficial."
"There could be better error handling. It would be a good way to improve the solution."
"Error-handling features can be improved."
"The code we write in AWS CloudFormation is pretty big compared to Terraform. We need to have more modules in the solution. A library should also be there where we can save code lines. A dashboard feature would be good for designers."
"The speed of the replication process could improve. It can take some time to replicate that could use a speed increase."
"It would help all users if AWS improved the auto-generation of the CloudFormation file."
"They could make it more easy to use and improve the GUI so that it's more intuitive."
"It should basically include a complete slew of system management and monitoring tools such as Nagios. It should be a single pane of glass that gives us a complete solution. It is a good solution, but it is missing a few important things. We're using Capsule for DMVs on other secured zones. Capsule is a part of Satellite to be a proxy of sorts."
"The product's automation capabilities need enhancement."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"Regarding the product's ability to support third-party tools, Red Hat doesn't support all the layers from the open-source version of Linux."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
"There could be a feature to simplify the process without the requirement of any patch manager subscription."
AWS CloudFormation is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 26 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 21 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. 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 Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Chef and Microsoft Configuration Manager, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager and Chef. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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