Robust Tool
August 09, 2021

Robust Tool

Manuela Jacqueline Mercado Rodríguez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS CloudFormation

It has been used across the whole organization for doing stacks. It has helped us for doing specific environments for testing changes per branch (using GIT). In this way, fewer bugs are introduced to Production. It also allows preserving resources as it is very configurable. We can form stacks with just a basic configuration or with all of them.
  • Configuring Stacks
  • Deploying Stacks
  • Managing Stacks
  • Sometimes stacks are hard to delete due to the correlation of resources or configurations
  • It could be tricky at first time when doing configurations
  • Creating Stacks
  • Managing Stacks
  • Doing specific configurations
  • It has a positive ROI
  • Less time inverted in bugs
  • More stable source code
AWS CloudFormation has more features and robustness. It is suited for professional projects since it provides stability and a wide variety of options for configurations. These include not only dividing stacks by specific code changes, but also in regions. This allows more granularity and control over all stacks. If you want to delete them all just by a region, you can do it.

Do you think AWS CloudFormation delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AWS CloudFormation's feature set?

Yes

Did AWS CloudFormation live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of AWS CloudFormation go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AWS CloudFormation again?

Yes

It is really suited for professional environments. You can divide them into different stages, or with just specific changes. Those can be determined by the branch from the version control system (GIT, for example). If you are exploring and don't have too many resources this is not a very good option.