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Updated 13th October 2025
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Manager
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, EducationFAVORABLE
“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.
Operations Associate
50M - 250M USD, IT ServicesCRITICAL
“Repeatable Deployments with CloudFormation Face Debugging Hurdles and Slow Rollbacks”
CloudFormation works well for infrastructure as code. It provides strong control over aws resources and supports repeatable deployments.
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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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Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
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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. - ENGINEER50M-1B USDTelecommunicationReview Source
A powerful and reliable AWS native infrastructure as code solution with a steep learning curve
Overall, our experience with AWS CloudFormation has been positive. It provides a reliable and scalable way to manage Infrastructure as code, enabling consistent deployments, better governance and reduced manual configuration errors.
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