We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and Spring Cloud 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."Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"The ability to send configurations to our systems is valuable, particularly as we don't have a regular Windows AD server. Our current environment doesn't have a Windows AD, which limits our ability to push GPOs. However, this is where the solution can step in and help us push policies."
"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"Users can make screenshots, and devices only need the minimal version of iOS."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Microsoft Intune is its seamless integration with Azure Active Directory, offering capabilities akin to Group Policy Objects."
"What I found most valuable in AWS CloudFormation is its configurability. The solution is easy to configure. I also like its change management configuration because that's also good."
"The most valuable feature of AWS CloudFormation is the simple tracking of infrastructure."
"CloudFormation gives us control of AWS and any Cloud infrastructure. It creates the whole stack for Cloud services technologies so it's easy to manage the whole system."
"The nested stacks would be one of the more valuable features."
"Scripting does what we need to reinstall something from scratch."
"The most beneficial aspect lies in its capability to handle input acquisition and assessment."
"AWS Cloud automation reduces the time needed to create AWS resources."
"CloudFormation itself is free to use. You will be charged for the resources you deploy using CloudFormation."
"It offers excellent scalability."
"Spring Cloud integrates well."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward. The deployment process took me around ten minutes to fifteen minutes."
"I would like some integration with the Microsoft reporting platform Power BI."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"It doesn't economize when you scale up. We have over 14,000 employees, and we have between 7,500 and 8,000 city-owned or personal devices being used to conduct city business. Its price can be improved. It is not a cheap solution."
"Intune's areas for improvement revolve around security and certificate management."
"Intune has limited integration with non-Microsoft solutions."
"Microsoft Intune needs to improve the initial login process."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"It would be good if, in addition to the minimal patching and compliance, we could also use Intune for application deployment. For instance, if a device is not patched, Intune should have the ability to push not only a Microsoft patch but also other patches, such as a browser patch."
"If Amazon could extend CloudFormation to other cloud platforms, that would be good. Currently, it is only limited to AWS."
"For a beginner, it's kind of difficult to set up. So, the user does need some knowledge in order to do it."
"Provisioning a large environment or a large number of services takes a bit more time than with Terraform."
"AWS CloudFormation allows you to use the code templates written in JSON and YAML, but not directly in Python. Adding this feature would be beneficial."
"It would help all users if AWS improved the auto-generation of the CloudFormation file."
"They could improve the product's capability to handle circular dependencies more effectively."
"One area where AWS CloudFormation could improve is by offering more flexibility in creating custom templates."
"CloudFormation is not particularly good at handling cross-account dynamic references. If you try to refer to an object that CloudFormation has created in a separate AWS account, it tends to fall apart. That's because it is a byproduct of the multi-tenant configuration. This is the most glaring shortcoming in my perspective because you can't dynamically reference objects in other accounts that CloudFormation has created, but it is not a shortcoming that you can't overcome. This is the only pain point that I've come across that didn't have a workaround natively. Sometimes the confirmation is slow, and it could be faster. The downside to CloudFormation when you're fully embracing it is that the AWS services do not get released immediately fully CloudFormation enabled. If you need to use the latest AWS service that just got announced or reinvented, you're not going to be able to continue with CloudFormation for the first X number of months. This is because they develop the products separately, and then they hand it to the CloudFormation team, which later on develops a CloudFormation integration. So, if you need to be on the newest thing AWS has, CloudFormation is often going to be a constraint that prevents you from doing that."
"If there's a dashboard like the ones provided by Apigee or Kong, that will be useful."
"It would be beneficial for the framework to become more lightweight and efficient when transitioning to the cloud."
"Stability is one area in the solution that needs to improve."
AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 28 reviews while Spring Cloud is ranked 19th in Configuration Management with 3 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.4, while Spring Cloud is rated 6.6. 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 Spring Cloud writes "Though the initial setup phase is straightforward, its stability needs to improve". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Configuration Manager and Chef, whereas Spring Cloud is most compared with HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. Spring Cloud report.
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