We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor 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."While Microsoft Intune boasts a wide range of features, its user-friendliness and bundled licensing cost are key considerations for me."
"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot."
"The ability to push applications on devices is valuable. You do not have to manually install applications one by one. If you like to use ten different applications, you do not have to manually go and download them one by one. Intune can compile a package for you, and then you can just push them from the admin center."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"We have found the solution is capable of scaling."
"Mobile device management is most valuable."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"CloudFormation itself is free to use. You will be charged for the resources you deploy using CloudFormation."
"With CloudFormation, there is no need to use complicated coding."
"I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We use it every day."
"Versioning makes our work easy."
"Automations make it pretty easy to provision AWS, development, or deployment environments."
"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."
"What I like best about AWS CloudFormation is that it is a quick and simple way to deploy various applications, like WordPress."
"The product’s alert feature is good. We receive notifications whenever some failures occur in the configuration."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is version control. For example, if we began on the first of the month and we considered that as the configuration of the server, I could set that configuration as my baseline. On a daily basis, if there was the operations team that did, for example, server patching, the tool will maintain all levels of versions."
"The feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."
"The pricing could be improved."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"It would help if administrators could pinpoint the exact location of a stolen device to help law enforcement retrieve it and apprehend the suspect."
"The reports that are generated aren't so great. They don't give a lot of meaning so far, but that could be down to user knowledge than the actual reporting side of things. I'm not a big user of it, but I was a bigger user of MaaS360, and we used to be able to run weekly and monthly reports. In the case of any deviations. we'd get a warning immediately. That's not so easy to do or to get in place for Intune. This could be just a user issue, but when I compare both, that's the only thing that's lacking for me."
"It's only good for a Microsoft environment."
"Intune does not provide real-time visibility."
"In the past, I raised some tickets for the enhancement feature, which was missing in Intune."
"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."
"As soon as they manage to parametrize the whole thing and to implement parameters at all levels, it will become automatically a lot more flexible."
"This tool is not intuitive and there are others that are easier to understand."
"The solution must enable more hands-on designing of the templates."
"They could improve the product's capability to handle circular dependencies more effectively."
"GUI could be improved by adding graphical components."
"What could be improved in AWS CloudFormation is its user interface, in terms of graphical design, I prefer WYSIWYG."
"For a beginner, it's kind of difficult to set up. So, the user does need some knowledge in order to do it."
"In a feature release, they could enhance the reporting. However, we have not evaluated this part of the solution extensively."
"The product’s support services and licensing models need improvement."
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AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 28 reviews while SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is ranked 17th in Configuration Management with 2 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor 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 SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor writes "Useful version control, high availability, and scales well". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Microsoft Configuration Manager, whereas SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is most compared with HashiCorp Terraform. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor report.
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