AWS Solution Architect at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
2024-10-14T17:56:00Z
Oct 14, 2024
CloudFormation itself doesn't cost anything. It depends on what you are launching. For AWS as a whole, it depends on what service you are using. There is a free tier for a year, which I've used, and that doesn't cost anything. After that year, if you're launching an EC2 instance from a larger family, that's going to cost you more compared to the smaller family. S3 is fairly cheap, but other storage-type services like FSx are really costly. It all just depends on what you are doing.
DevOps Lead Engineer at Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Real User
Top 10
2024-04-02T14:52:57Z
Apr 2, 2024
There's no cost for launching any template using CloudFormation. We only pay for the AWS resources we use. For example, if we launch an instance using CloudFormation, we pay only for the instance itself.
Cloud Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
MSP
Top 10
2023-04-13T15:01:09Z
Apr 13, 2023
If you compared serverless and container-based, serverless is less expensive. If you use certain instances the price can increase and become too expensive.
AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to model and provision AWS and third party application resources in your cloud environment. AWS CloudFormation allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts. This gives you a single source of truth for your AWS and third party resources.
CloudFormation itself doesn't cost anything. It depends on what you are launching. For AWS as a whole, it depends on what service you are using. There is a free tier for a year, which I've used, and that doesn't cost anything. After that year, if you're launching an EC2 instance from a larger family, that's going to cost you more compared to the smaller family. S3 is fairly cheap, but other storage-type services like FSx are really costly. It all just depends on what you are doing.
CloudFormation itself is not priced. The service will enable you to spin up infrastructure, which gets priced as part of the AWS license.
The tool's pricing depends on the page model.
AWS CloudFormation's pricing is cheaper than that of other cloud providers.
There's no cost for launching any template using CloudFormation. We only pay for the AWS resources we use. For example, if we launch an instance using CloudFormation, we pay only for the instance itself.
The tool is free for the AWS environment.
The product is free.
The pricing is not notably high. I would rate it two out of ten.
The pricing is not expensive. The cost depends on the resources you launch. So, you pay for the resources you use, not the other way around.
The solution's cost is normal, neither cheap nor expensive.
The price of the solution is good because it is scalable.
If you compared serverless and container-based, serverless is less expensive. If you use certain instances the price can increase and become too expensive.
I rate the price an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive.
AWS CloudFormation doesn't have any cost because it's only the resources that you deploy with the solution that'll incur costs.
I don't know what the cost of the solution is.
This solution is free to use and does not require a license.