AWS CloudFormation vs. Microsoft Azure
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 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 |
 Microsoft Azure | Score8.5 out of 10 | N/A | Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. | $29 per month |
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| Additional Details | 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. | The free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account. | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.6 | 8.8 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 10.0 |
| Usability | - | 9.4 |
| Availability | - | 6.8 |
| Support Rating | - | 8.1 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.0 |