AWS CloudFormation vs. Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

AWS CloudFormation

Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudFormation	Score 8.7 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
Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	NaviSite boasts flexible and scalable managed services that provide 24x7x365 monitoring and support for any environment a business selects—whether it’s on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid. Their managed infrastructure services include managed infrastructure and hosting, data center colocation services, as well as disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). Navisite services include those under the former RDX brand, which separated from Charter Communications (as part of the Spectrum Enterprise…	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudFormation

Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

Editions & Modules

Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account: $0.00
Handler Operation: $0.0009
per handler operation

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudFormation	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudFormation	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Top Pros	Pro Create multiple Pro Easy to build Pro Defined templates	Pro Managed services Pro Address issues Pro 24 7
Top Cons	Minus Use cases Minus Time to create Minus Live support	Minus Good connection Minus Pro active Minus Customer focused

Features

AWS CloudFormation

Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	AWS CloudFormation - Ratings	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud) 8.0 1 Ratings 2% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudFormation	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Terraform Score 8.5 out of 10	Akamai Cloud Computing Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Ansible Score 8.9 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS CloudFormation	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (5 ratings)	7.0 (2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudFormation	Navisite Managed Infrastructure Services (NaviCloud)
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS AWS CloudFormation is well suited for scenarios where all of your resources need to be provisioned on AWS but it is not suited for hybrid cloud deployments. It's very easy for someone new to learn. The level of customization offered as part of the template specifically for AWS services is great. There is also a UI tool where we can drag and drop the services we want and it generates an yaml file which is very easy to use. The visibility of stacks and its resources and one place where we can track and identify the issues in deployment is great. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	NaviSite Clarify before hand any additional charges for remote hand and arrangement/SLA for remote hand. Negotiate well on these terms as they tend to be more flexible around this. Clarify shipping and handling charges if any. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS SaaS Paas Iaas On promises Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	NaviSite 24/7 monitoring Immediate notification in the event of failures Dedicated Senior DBA Dedicate Account rep Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	NaviSite San Jose facility power outage caused damage to company's credibility, this should not occur again being 7x24 facility and backup generator Avoiding too many management changes will help create good connection with individuals for sustained harmony Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Amazon AWS No answers on this topic	NaviSite Price and facility equipment, location of the hosting facility factor into the decision to renew Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS We didn't look into anything else as Cloudformation was "built-in" for AWS, it just kind of made sense to go with that. Terraform was something that we briefly looked into Terraform but decides to stick with Cloudformation because our task was relatively "simple". Apparently if it's a bit more complex, Terraform might be the way to go. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	NaviSite Navisite's rates were better and they seemed to have more SQL Server expertise. This was about 5 years ago and it may not be the case anymore Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS It has a positive ROI Less time inverted in bugs More stable source code Incentivized Manuela Jacqueline Mercado Rodríguez Senior Full Stack Developer Read full review	NaviSite Cost savings by not having a full-time DBA on staff - saving of at least 50K a year Data team not on call 24/7 Navisite team will try to fix issue if possible - e.g. shrink log files that have grown Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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