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“Automatic Rollbacks Enhance Reliability While Complex Templates Add to Difficulty”
“Repeatable Deployments with CloudFormation Face Debugging Hurdles and Slow Rollbacks”
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.
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AWS CloudFormation Likes & Dislikes
- We like the fact that we don't need to use any third-party providers since CloudFormation is enough for all our AWS services needs - Automatic rolling back of failed changes is another feature that we love, and it has saved us a couple of times - It also helps us control who can create, update and delete specific resources by applying IAM roles - We also found that it keeps things consistent across different environments
I like the ability to control the versions. Change sets help you review updates before applying them.
The following are the key aspects of the service that I like: Consistency of deployment and speed at which environments can be spun up, thus removing human error. The ability to use version control, such that templates can be stored in github and therefore tracked. It is a native tool available through AWS, therefore no need for vendor integration and such like. And finally, the ability to manage costs from one centralized location.
- We noticed that working with larger and complex templates becomes hard to read if we don't use macros or nesting - We also found that debugging sometimes requires manual intervention because the errors are vague - There should be some feature for creating reusable modules and sharing between teams
Templates grow complex fast and are hard to read. Stack failures can be hard to debug. Rollbacks take time and sometimes leave resources in a failed state.
Nothing, since it works extremely well and as expected.
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AWS CloudFormation Reviews and Ratings
- Sr. Systems Administrator50M-1B USDMediaReview Source
Automatic Rollbacks Enhance Reliability While Complex Templates Add to Difficulty
Our overall experience with AWS CloudFormation has been solid and dependable, particularly as an IaC tool for our AWS native environments. We found it really helpful for our repeatable infrastructure provisioning needs. We also use it for our change tracking needs as well as rollbacks and audits. It even saved us a couple of times when failed deployments were about to become an incident, but thanks to its native rollback functionality. It does sometimes get overwhelming if the template is huge and complex, but I would say it's still worth it. - ManagerGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Comprehensive Features and Online Resources Enhance Cloud Adoption Across Multiple Regions
Our experience with the use of cloud formation has been great, especially when it comes to maintaining the entire real estate via infrastructure as code (IAS). There are a variety of ways in which it can be used, which makes it very flexible and importantly eliminates the need for manual resource management. - Vertical Head1B-10B USDInsurance (except health)Review Source
AWS CloudFormation Offers Security And Compliance Yet Faces Template Readability Issues
Overall experience is good with AWS CloudFormation, which is powerful, secure and cost-effective for our AWS environments. DevOps pipelines tightly integrated with AWS services. - Software Developer<50M USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
AWS CloudFormation Simplifies Repeatable Deployments, Though Templates Can Grow Complex.
Overall my experience with AWS CloudFormation has been positive, it makes it much easier to manage and repeat infrastructure setups, though templates sometimes get complicated. - Director Of Administrative Systems - CloGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
AWS CloudFormation Streamlines Resource Management With Predictable Template-Based Setups
It was nice using AWS CloudFormation. It lets me define and manage AWS resources using templates instead of clicking around in the console. Basically, I can spin up entire environments of servers, databases, networking, and permissions using a single template file. Once you’re comfortable with the syntax, it saves a lot of time and reduces human error.