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Cloudify vs Firefly comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudify
Ranking in Cloud Management
39th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Firefly
Ranking in Cloud Management
18th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Cloudify is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Firefly is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Firefly0.6%
Cloudify1.4%
Other98.0%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Ullas Soman - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Consultant at Coforge Growth Agency
Great at enabling a single platform to communicate with an entire infrastructure.
The best feature of Cloudify is that it enables a single platform to communicate with the DB, with applications, and with the entire infrastructure. The product is very stable and has a lot of troubleshooting and analytical features. It's easy to understand and user-friendly. If you want to uninstall something, it's very easy to have the logic created in Cloudify. Other solutions don't have this. For example, if you wanted to decommission after three or four years, rather than going for a full decommission, it's possible to unallocate a particular space. If you want to allocate storage for a new build, it's very easy to deploy, uninstall and release some storage from the TOSCA.
RasanpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automation has streamlined cloud cost control and governance yet onboarding still needs improvement
The best features Firefly offers include cost saving and drift detection, which native infrastructure as code solutions do not provide. Drift detection and governance are great features for Firefly that help me identify unutilized resources that can save costs. Firefly's drift detection and governance help me day-to-day by notifying me of any configuration drifts, such as when developers change configurations that I cannot control. For example, if I have a number of VMs running and their configurations are changed, Firefly alerts me to these changes, allowing me to identify gaps in configurations that can be corrected. Firefly's accuracy and reliability in output are impressive, with approximately 80% accuracy in building the required code for various services from the foundation services like EKS and VPC. Firefly has positively impacted my organization mainly through cost savings and governance. It allows me to have a centralized dashboard for a complete view of my AWS accounts to find problems easily. Additionally, it has saved me time because I no longer need to write every Terraform from scratch, as Firefly provides best industry practices code. For example, I monitored my database instances and found that someone had expanded the ACU size from the required number to ten times more, which began costing me $10,000 monthly extra for one AWS account. Firefly detected this and saved me the $10,000 extra expenditure.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This is a somewhat complex solution for very complex use cases where there are multiple cloud vendors, multiple infrastructures, and multiple configurations."
"Cloudify works in cases where you have very advanced service chaining requirements. It really works well there, and it fits the best. They have a standardized markup that's based on TOSCA, which is a standard. I like the fact that they're standards-based. Their solution works extremely well if you have the talent and the manpower to write TOSCA descriptors to deploy and interchange services or to automate the configuration and turn up of services."
"The best feature of Cloudify is that it enables a single platform to communicate with the DB, with applications, and with the entire infrastructure."
"Cloudify provides a good framework that you can build on to provide custom solutions for an organization."
"Product has given us the ability to catch early scaling issues that many companies hit on with private clouds."
"Cloudify provides the infrastructure-as-code, as well as operational action capabilities (orchestrated startups or upgrades, and more)."
"Cloudify works in cases where you have very advanced service chaining requirements; it really works well there, and it fits the best."
"We have found that this is not an undue burden, and the extra work gives immense flexibility and portability."
"Firefly saves one employee, it saves 5 million annually, and we are currently improving 40% of our go-to-market time while reducing cost by 30% and increasing revenue by approximately 20%."
"Firefly has impacted my work positively by making it more creative and productive."
"Firefly has a positive impact on my organization by improving cloud governance, infrastructure consistency, and engineering productivity."
"Firefly is excellent for generating text images and editing images."
"Firefly has a positive impact on my organization by improving cloud governance, infrastructure consistency, and engineering productivity."
"Firefly has positively impacted my organization mainly through cost savings and governance, allowing me to have a centralized dashboard for a complete view of my AWS accounts to find problems easily and saving me time because I no longer need to write every Terraform from scratch, as Firefly provides best industry practices code."
 

Cons

"The solution is a bit of a headache because mistakes happen in the blueprint every time we deploy and they require modifications."
"The upgrading process could be simplified."
"It lacked the user interface for multitenancy and basic platform management tasks."
"I'd like to see a more simplified upgrade process so it can be completed in one step rather than multiple steps (snapshot backup + snapshot restore)."
"I did encounter any issues with scalability."
"There were some issues with deploying the solution on OpenStack Mitaka."
"Install of the product itself could be improved and I would like to see better event monitoring."
"Certainly the UI could use some intensive work, but nevertheless, overall, it’s a complete product with its 3.4 version and much better features are available with 4.0."
"The only negative aspect of Firefly I see is the pricing, which is expensive."
"Some of the areas Firefly can improve are a simpler onboarding process for organizations with large and multi-cloud environments, more customization for generated Terraform code to better match existing coding standards and module structures, and more native integrations with DevOps and ITSM tools."
"The learning curve for new users adopting Firefly can be overwhelming; I believe improvements in onboarding and training materials are necessary to facilitate quicker adoption."
"If I talk about the cost, the cost is a little high."
"Some of the areas Firefly can improve are a simpler onboarding process for organizations with large and multi-cloud environments, more customization for generated Terraform code to better match existing coding standards and module structures, and more native integrations with DevOps and ITSM tools."
"I feel that Firefly can be improved by getting more models to generate high-end videos."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I wasn't involved in the pricing of it because we were just doing prototype work with it, but I was told by the upper management team that it was quite expensive. That was another reason we switched to Morpheus."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
18%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Construction Company
13%
Computer Software Company
9%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

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What needs improvement with Firefly?
The only negative aspect of Firefly I see is the pricing, which is expensive. I would like to see Firefly include animated styles, such as moving objects or GIF functionality. This feature would si...
What is your primary use case for Firefly?
I currently work with multiple products, including Firefly, which I have used, and a couple of other Cloud AI tools for graphic designing. I have been utilizing Firefly for approximately one and a ...
What advice do you have for others considering Firefly?
I have not faced issues with customization in Firefly for our editing or perspective changes, which do not require additional features. Removing objects works well, and currently, we have not encou...
 

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