Amazon Web Services vs. AWS CloudFormation
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Amazon Web Services | Score8.6 out of 10 | N/A | Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools. | $100 per month |
AWS CloudFormation | Score8.8 out of 10 | N/A | AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.… | $0 |
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| Additional Details | AWS allows a “save when you commit” option that offers lower prices when you sign up for a 1- or 3- year term that includes an AWS service or category of services. | There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource. | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | 7.6 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.4 | - |
| Usability | 8.5 | - |
| Availability | 9.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 7.2 | - |
| Online Training | 7.0 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 10.0 | - |