AWS CloudFormation vs. SCloud ULightHost

SCloud ULightHost

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
SCloud ULightHost	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	ULightHost is a lightweight cloud server product that provides convenient and efficient cloud construction services for small and medium-sized enterprises and developers. Presented as simpler and easier to use than ordinary cloud servers, it sells cloud resources as a whole in the form of packages, and provides high-bandwidth traffic packages. Users…	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudFormation

SCloud ULightHost

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	SCloud ULightHost
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
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	SCloud ULightHost
Top Pros	Pro Create multiple Pro Easy to build Pro Defined templates	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Use cases Minus Time to create Minus Live support	No answers on this topic

Features

AWS CloudFormation

SCloud ULightHost

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	AWS CloudFormation - Ratings	SCloud ULightHost 9.0 1 Ratings 10% above category average
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudFormation	SCloud ULightHost
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Terraform Score 8.6 out of 10	Akamai Cloud Computing Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 9.0 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Ansible Score 9.0 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	AWS CloudFormation	SCloud ULightHost
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (5 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudFormation	SCloud ULightHost
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	SCloud Pte. Ltd. The bundled package available with cloud resources and high-bandwidth traffic at SCloud ULightHost further streamlines our deployment process, allowing for quick application development. In a way, boosting our time to market. An ideal choice for those looking to effortlessly harness the benefits of cloud technology at zero learning curve, that would maximise their time to focus on developing their apps. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS SaaS Paas Iaas On promises Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SCloud Pte. Ltd. Price factor Almost no learning curve Popular images 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	SCloud Pte. Ltd. More marketing online More images 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	SCloud Pte. Ltd. Arguably the top name for 'lightweight' cloud compute product in the market, but is so much more complicated to start with more configurations, images and templates. We know what we want and proceeded to try SCloud ULightHost to satisfaction. Good pricing point that is transparent without fear of sudden bill shock from free credits expiration etc from AWS who collect credit card. 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	SCloud Pte. Ltd. Cost savings $$$ Time!! Maybe 1 min/instance? Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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