We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"The biggest thing for us is enforcing logins only from devices that are managed by Intune."
"Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"The best feature is that we don't need to worry about downtime. We don't need to worry about the network connections of our office or the virtual private network. Everything is being done through the internet. Using Intune Autopilot, we can configure and deploy everything to the devices."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"There is a cost-benefit to using CloudFormation that comes about because of the automation that it provides."
"It is easy to work from the console and deploy new database services."
"The solution has helped with automation. I don't have to worry about provisioning machines and ensuring everything is set up. AWS CloudFormation takes care of the entire infrastructure for me."
"The integration of the solution is very good."
"It allows defining the infrastructure as code using templates, which describe the desired state of the infrastructure."
"I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We use it every day."
"The CloudFormation template can be reused to create multiple stacks, reducing duplications and improving our infrastructure."
"With CloudFormation, there is no need to use complicated coding."
"We can automate a few host configurations using the product."
"There are so many models that I don't have to create one."
"The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"It does not require staff for deployment and maintenance. It just works."
"Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features which may attract users."
"Ansible is agentless. So, we don't need to set up any agent into the computer we are interacting with. The only prerequisite is that the host with which we are going to interact must have the Python interpreter installed on it. We can connect to a host and do our configuration by using Ansible."
"Ansible Tower provides a GUI, which is an enhancement, and a well-liked feature by operation teams."
"It should be simplified. I've worked with many different mobile device management solutions, and Intune is one of the more complex ones. It could be more simplified, and some of it is related to the wording that is being used, such as a configuration profile versus a policy. They really should have had different names to make it less confusing."
"The reporting is subpar. That's the only issue we have with Intune. We use another solution for that purpose."
"The product needs to upgrade itself when the server is overloaded."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"Reporting could be improved. It needs to be more expensive and robust."
"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"For improvement, it's crucial that AWS provides options in terms of computing services, DB related services, and machine learning solutions. If I'm not hands-on with a particular service, like machine learning applications, I struggle to write the CloudFormation code."
"What could be improved in AWS CloudFormation is its user interface, in terms of graphical design, I prefer WYSIWYG."
"There could be better error handling. It would be a good way to improve the solution."
"The speed of the replication process could improve. It can take some time to replicate that could use a speed increase."
"As soon as they manage to parametrize the whole thing and to implement parameters at all levels, it will become automatically a lot more flexible."
"This tool is not intuitive and there are others that are easier to understand."
"If Amazon could extend CloudFormation to other cloud platforms, that would be good. Currently, it is only limited to AWS."
"If you are a developer or a more technical person, it's very difficult to learn the complete syntax or because CloudFormation includes a new way to write infrastructure code."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
"One problem that I'm facing right now is the mismatch between the new version of Python and Ansible. Sometimes it's Python 2, and sometimes it's Python 3. When things get a bit dicey, I wish that Ansible would solve this issue by itself. I don't want to have to specify if it is Python 3 or version 2."
"What I'm trying to figure out, personally, is, when doing mass updates, how I can parallelize that a little bit better. It seems right now - and maybe, it's a shortcoming on my end - that I run through one set of servers, and then another set of servers, ad then another set of servers, but it seems like I could throw a lot of these checks out. Different types of servers, like web servers and DB servers, if I could parallelize that a little bit to make everything run a little bit more efficiently, that would help."
"It needs better documentation."
"There is always room for improvement in features or customer support."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
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AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 27 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS CloudFormation writes "Pretty easy setup with great automations for provisioning that save time and money". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and Chef, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BMC TrueSight Server Automation. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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