AWS CloudFormation vs. Skytap

Skytap

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
Skytap	Score 5.3 out of 10	N/A	Traditional Applications, Now in the Cloud Skytap helps users get business-critical applications out of the data center and into the cloud. The user can run on-premises IBM Power and x86 workloads in their native format on Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud. With Skytap, there is no need to contemplate embarking on a long, costly migration project to unlock cloud scale, agility, and value-added native cloud services such as advanced analytics, data modeling, cognitive intelligence, and…	N/A

Pricing

AWS CloudFormation

Skytap

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	Skytap
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	Skytap
Top Pros	Pro Create multiple Pro Easy to build Pro Defined templates	Pro Business process Pro Improve business process
Top Cons	Minus Use cases Minus Time to create Minus Live support	No answers on this topic

Features

AWS CloudFormation

Skytap

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	AWS CloudFormation - Ratings	Skytap 9.0 1 Ratings 10% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudFormation	Skytap
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	Skytap
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (5 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudFormation	Skytap
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	Skytap It is a shared environment from which multiple team can work on multiple versions for development or testing purpose. User jut have to share a link and other can start working on it. This is very useful when multiple team are working on different user simultaneously. It has a very simple interface Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS SaaS Paas Iaas On promises Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Skytap No answers on this topic
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	Skytap No answers on this topic
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	Skytap No answers on this topic
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	Skytap No answers on this topic
ScreenShots	AWS CloudFormation Screenshots