11:11 Public Cloud vs. AWS CloudFormation

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
11:11 Public Cloud
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
11:11 Public Cloud provides the flexibility and scalability of traditional Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The solution includes VMware-based public cloud and managed hyperscale cloud offerings.N/A
AWS CloudFormation
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.…
$0
Pricing
11:11 Public CloudAWS CloudFormation
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account
$0.00
Handler Operation
$0.0009
per handler operation
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
11:11 Public CloudAWS CloudFormation
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThere is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource.
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Community Pulse
11:11 Public CloudAWS CloudFormation
Features
11:11 Public CloudAWS CloudFormation
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
11:11 Public Cloud
5.9
3 Ratings
33% below category average
AWS CloudFormation
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Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates4.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools5.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Configuration Management
Comparison of Configuration Management features of Product A and Product B
11:11 Public Cloud
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Ratings
AWS CloudFormation
8.2
2 Ratings
2% above category average
Infrastructure Automation00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Automated Provisioning00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Parallel Execution00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Node Management00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Reporting & Logging00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Version Control00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
11:11 Public CloudAWS CloudFormation
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
11:11 Public CloudAWS CloudFormation
Likelihood to Recommend
11:11 Systems
When shared with multiple teams, I could not find many products better than this. I enjoyed working in this aspect, it was smooth in cross-teams transferring. They have a good foundation of technology I would say, the thing it is lacking is in the usability for non-technical people. I have seen many struggling with this aspect.
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Amazon AWS
I still give it an 8 because it's one of those tools that just quietly does the heavy lifting for you but it can really test your patience when it breaks esp with deep nested stacks. It's perfect for projects where we need clean consistent environments every time. It's less ideal for quick experimental setups like new EC2 configs or Lambda permission tweaks.
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Pros
11:11 Systems
  • Security - no-one can access your systems, even you!
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Amazon AWS
  • All resources can segregated based on stacks which provides greater visibility
  • A complete audit trail of what went wrong while deploying a particular resource
  • Automatically rollbacks if any service as part of CloudFormation results in an error
  • The UI tool is useful
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Cons
11:11 Systems
  • I needed support for many modules, where I think I was not satisfied.
  • The detailing of each module is lacking.
  • If you form clutter of files, there is no solution for it.
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Amazon AWS
  • Error Description upon Failure Needs to be Improved.
  • Slow to create, delete or update.
  • Need to delete resources manually. It can ask before starting deletion whether to skip those resources or delete them.
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Usability
11:11 Systems
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
It's easy enough to get a shared template & apply it. You don't even have to download-then-upload or copy-and-paste, a publicly-accessible url works.
Diving deeper, it has enough powerful capabilities to make the life of a platform / DevOps engineer bearable.
However, you need equally deep knowledge to troubleshoot issues, when they inevitably pop up. This is the same for all IaC technologies, as they are additional abstraction layers on top of the native API provided by the cloud providers.
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Support Rating
11:11 Systems
Support is completely inflexible in their policies and procedures, turning even the simplest request into a months-long ordeal.
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Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
11:11 Systems
I would select Sungard on the basis of technology foundation and functionality. It gave me an ample amount of features which I could use in a better way. The inter-team communication gets a better structure than the other products. I would use it on the basis of the above mentioned points. This has proven to be a good support for my team.
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Amazon AWS
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Return on Investment
11:11 Systems
  • Positive - Inter-department report flow was quick.
  • Positive - Defined process gave us a defined to finish our goals.
  • Negative - Detailing on each module is less.
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Amazon AWS
  • + We can standup a VPC in minutes
  • - It took a lot of inital time to set up
  • + With logging/rollback, made testing much easier.
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ScreenShots

AWS CloudFormation Screenshots

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