We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and AWS Systems Manager 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 initial setup is not complex."
"One of the best features is Windows Autopilot because if you change any of your devices, whatever security policies and compliance policies that applied can be easily migrated to the new devices. Windows Autopilot gives you that flexibility."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"One of the biggest advantages of Microsoft Intune is that it brings the management of Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and even Linux under a single pane of glass."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is scalable. We currently have tens of thousands of users within our organization using the solution."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"Intune provides full endpoint visibility and IT control across device platforms. You can individualize it for your company with the Intune Company Portal app."
"The nested stacks would be one of the more valuable features."
"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."
"What I like best about AWS CloudFormation is that it is a quick and simple way to deploy various applications, like WordPress."
"It allows defining the infrastructure as code using templates, which describe the desired state of the infrastructure."
"There is a cost-benefit to using CloudFormation that comes about because of the automation that it provides."
"Scripting does what we need to reinstall something from scratch."
"AWS Cloud automation reduces the time needed to create AWS resources."
"Automations make it pretty easy to provision AWS, development, or deployment environments."
"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"When we do the automation in the cloud, we use the SSM agent. This helps us to test our automation and documents, and monitor the cloud."
"The solution is user-friendly"
"AWS provides Auto Scaling groups."
"The solution's ability to scale is good."
"Systems Manager has a feature where it analyzes the logs and gives us a performance overview in the form of a graph. We know when it's taking up more resources and when there are spikes, so we can predict the usability."
"Has a variety of automation options."
"Technical support is not that great."
"Intune's areas for improvement revolve around security and certificate management."
"Intune's reporting and logging could be improved. When troubleshooting, it's difficult to collect the logs and determine what's happening. If I want to filter out the compliant devices, I can see it from the logs, but I would like the option to drill down further."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"Microsoft Intune fails a lot when it comes to device compliance."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"They could also make it easier to use because there are some other products that may be easier to use in terms of the look and feel of the dashboard."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"It would help all users if AWS improved the auto-generation of the CloudFormation file."
"The solution must enable more hands-on designing of the templates."
"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."
"Including certain examples of templates would be advantageous."
"There is less support for on-premise environments."
"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."
"GUI could be improved by adding graphical components."
"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."
"Additional features can be added as per customer requirements."
"The current challenge is that we can't pull any incidents from other accounts."
"Lacks sufficient integrations."
"The fact that AWS Systems Manager takes time to complete the patching process, makes it an area where improvements are required."
"The AWS UIs are not the most intuitive. Also, the usability needs room for improvement."
"We formerly used third-party products to analyze the log, give us information, and find bottlenecks. Systems Manager could provide more tools that conduct this analysis, so we don't have to do it ourselves."
"AWS does not have EKS cluster backup."
AWS CloudFormation is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 28 reviews while AWS Systems Manager is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 7 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.4, while AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.0. 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 AWS Systems Manager writes "Offers a variety of automation options; simplifies governance and administration ". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with Spring Cloud, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Configuration Manager and Chef, whereas AWS Systems Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, BigFix and Chef. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. AWS Systems Manager report.
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