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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

It helps create and build an entire infra setup and provision resources within minutes. It is easy to use the same stack to create another similar environment.

Rolling back is easy and it deletes the entire stack, so you don’t have to worry about the cleanup or stale resources in the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

It requires dependency on the AWS environment, you cannot use it beyond that.

In a few cases, when resources (sec groups or subnets) are stuck upon rollback, you may have to manually find and delete them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

I automated my entire network and infra setup within minutes for a web application environment.

It is one time work on the stack, but it really saves a lot of time in the Long run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS CloudFormation Overview

What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation allows you to use a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts.

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AWS CloudFormation allows you to use a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts.


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4.0 out of 5
"streamlined infrastructure as code with little room for some improvements"
Ability to automate and standardize infra deployment using code. The declarative approach ensures consistencey across environments. Seamless integr...
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"Uma Ferramenta Poderosa para Gerenciamento de Infraestrutura Automatizado e Escalável"
O que eu mais gosto no AWS CloudFormation é a automação e padronização no gerenciamento de infraestrutura. Ele permite criar e gerenciar recursos d...
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"AWS CloudFormation works well for our organization"
We can leverage CloudFormation templates for provisioning our infrastructure. These templates can be reused or modified as needed.
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matheus f.
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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

O que eu mais gosto no AWS CloudFormation é a automação e padronização no gerenciamento de infraestrutura. Ele permite criar e gerenciar recursos de forma consistente, reduzindo erros manuais e facilitando a escalabilidade. A possibilidade de usar infraestrutura como código para definir e versionar ambientes, além da integração com outros serviços da AWS, torna a ferramenta muito eficiente e confiável. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

O que eu não gosto no AWS CloudFormation é a curva de aprendizado inicial, que pode ser difícil para iniciantes, e a complexidade na sintaxe dos templates. Além disso, a demora nas atualizações de stacks em ambientes grandes e as limitações em funcionalidades avançadas podem ser frustrantes, exigindo o uso de outras ferramentas para personalizações mais complexas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

O AWS CloudFormation automatiza a criação e gestão de recursos na AWS, permitindo configurar toda a infraestrutura de forma programática usando templates. Isso facilita a reutilização, automação e escalabilidade, além de permitir tratar a infraestrutura como código. Para quem estuda segurança, como você, ele é útil para criar rapidamente ambientes de teste controlados e consistentes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

Ability to automate and standardize infra deployment using code. The declarative approach ensures consistencey across environments. Seamless integration with other AWS services makes it powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

Complexity of debugging failed stack deployments. Writing large and complex templates in YAML Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solved the problem of manual and error proned infra provisioning by enabling Infra as a code. Ensures consistent, scalable and repeatable deployments across all environments. This benefits us reducing human erros Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

It has fasten the deployment time with ease of implementation and it integrates flawlessly with other aws services for aws resource creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

It is hard to understand for beginners especially rollback,etc. concepts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has made the whole AWS resources creation process fully automated with yaml scripts to create aws resources with ease within few minutes the servers are ready for deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

AWS Cloudformation helps us in creating infrstructure in AWS easily using different ways you choose by your flexibility, it's a Infrastructure as a service whih allows us to create AWS resources using yaml, using programming APIs, CDKs

With this tool we can automate the creation of resources and updating the resources easily, and which saves us lots of time, and with more success rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

For beginners the stack deletion, rollback process, etc things will be difficult to understand, there is a lot of content in documentation which takes more time to debug if anything went wrong Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

WIthout Cloudformation we need to create the resources manully, and sometimes when creating resources for multiple environments we might miss few things, and things might go wrong, but now using cloudformaiton we're able to automate everything related to infrastrture which makes our devs life very easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

We use cloudformation for managing our AWS Cloud services, it helps us in creating, managing aws resources using different ways like Canvas template, SDKs, CDKs etc

Easy integrate with most popular programming languages like python, javascript, etc

By using this we've automated services creation & updation using classic yaml structure, so that it saves lots of time, and helps us managing resources without issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

I don't think any things, it provides us lots of flexibilities, which provides a more value to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating Cloud resources manually consumes lots of tiem and devs efforts, and accuracy can't be predicted, issues can be raised, cloud formation solving all these issues with just simple things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shreya S.
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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

easy to use. All resources created in one stack. Cross resource sharing using cloudformation functions. Easy to visualise with the help of aws UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

sometimes it can be bit complicated to understand the template.But aws console helps to overcome this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in configuring resources. We can add dependencies for stack. Easy to reuse.Easy to update ,add, delete resources, handles the entire lifecycle of resources. Easy deployment of resources. Easy cross region, cross-account management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

I like the automation which reduces the human error which is possible in the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

Well the dislike about AWS

cloudformation is the ecosystem supported as it's good if we are on AWS system else little difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

It comes with rollback facility , I can rollback with my failed projects and tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sahil Y.
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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

Ease of integration with the AWS environment, no cost for using cloudformation, configuration files are automatically managed by AWS and all the changes done in state are synced automatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

Limited to one particular cloud provider . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps with the auto deployment and management of the AWS Hosted infrastructure and ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Poorav A.
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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation is working very good with Python using the AWS SDK (Boto3). With CloudFormation we can do things like setting up and managing infrastructure automatically. With Boto3, developers have lots of tools to work with CloudFormation stacks – they can create, update, and delete them easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation to set up and manage infrastructure automatically is really useful, but it can be very difficult for beginners to figure it out. The documentation is too long and there are lots of different things to understand and learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS CloudFormation taking care of making resources are set up in the right order. This makes it easy to deployment of complicated setups with things like VPCs, subnets, security groups, and IAM roles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS CloudFormation?

i like cloudformation template for scripting throw you program in one location to create lots of script and usefull for automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS CloudFormation?

improve doucmentation in aws docs and steps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS CloudFormation solving and how is that benefiting you?

easy to create infrastructure in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.