AWS CloudFormation vs. AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS CloudFormation vs. AWS Trusted Advisor
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AWS CloudFormation | 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 | |
AWS Trusted Advisor | N/A | AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides users real time guidance to help provision resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce overall costs, and monitor service limits. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor are designed to help keep solutions provisioned optimally. | N/A |
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| Additional Details | There 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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| Small Businesses | HashiCorp Terraform Score 8.8 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10 | IBM Turbonomic Score 9.0 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10 | vRealize Operations (discontinued) Score 9.2 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.0 (7 ratings) | 9.0 (1 ratings) |
| Usability | 8.0 (2 ratings) | - (0 ratings) |
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