AWS CloudFormation vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS CloudFormation
Score 8.8 out of 10
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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.…
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OCI
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.N/A
Pricing
AWS CloudFormationOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Editions & Modules
Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account
$0.00
Handler Operation
$0.0009
per handler operation
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudFormationOCI
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsThere 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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Community Pulse
AWS CloudFormationOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Considered Both Products
AWS CloudFormation
Chose AWS CloudFormation
Since the product I'm involved is primarily hosted on AWS we use CloudFormation but in some other products where we have hybrid cloud deployments we prefer terraform which is opensource.
Chose AWS CloudFormation
Cloning a virtual machine creates a virtual machine that is cloning a virtual machine creates a virtual machine that is a copy of the original. The new virtual machine is configured with the same virtual hardware, installed software, and other properties that were configured …
Chose AWS CloudFormation
As we have our whole infrastructure on AWS, that is why we selected AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation is better integrated with AWS services than other available products and also provides visibility and tracking on AWS. AWS CloudFormation is free while Terraform …
Chose AWS CloudFormation
We didn't look into anything else as Cloudformation was "built-in" for AWS, it just kind of made sense to go with that. Terraform was something that we briefly looked into Terraform but decides to stick with Cloudformation because our task was relatively "simple". Apparently if …
Chose AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation has more features and robustness. It is suited for professional projects since it provides stability and a wide variety of options for configurations. These include not only dividing stacks by specific code changes, but also in regions. This allows more …
Chose AWS CloudFormation
The only real comparison would be to Terraform, which is another IaC technology at the infra level. Terraform is cloud-agnostic, which means most popular cloud providers are supported. While AWS CloudFormation is AWS-only. Although, if you consider CDK, CDK for Terraform …
OCI
Chose OCI
Main benefit was costing compared to other services and we use Oracle as a database so with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure we can fully utilize the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database which helped a lot for our products to handle major load that is one big plus because we had pay …
Chose OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure typically offers lower pricing for compute and storage than AWS. There are no hidden charges, it is more transparent. It is built for running oracle databases which the application was using, and licensing is more cost effective as compared to AWS.
Chose OCI
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Lambda
Chose OCI
Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services
Chose OCI
Right now we are evaluating the usage. Prima facie is that it will be game changer and we are supposed to start POC in next sprint. Can not put client details but on high level, clients are very excited to see if ML can predict areas of traction from where orders are created …
Chose OCI
Selected ones are better than Oracle Cloud Infrastructure but it works well only for small scale applications. It leads to migration to other cloud platforms.
Chose OCI
Used Google Cloud Platform to store data in data warehouse and the monitor it. Powerfull VM in GCP are very good and can process large databases too. We are using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure mostly because of client's request.
Chose OCI
Performance and latency are excellent in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Except for AWS baremetal, I don't find anything like that. I found that, aside from conventional compute that works really good, they also offer HPC VDI. That's one of the strengths that should have more hype …
Chose OCI
Better SLAs returned from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
UI loads quicker than Azure
Cost performance is linear, not the same in Azure
Chose OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure stacks up against EC2, in cases where out DB are Oracle, the transformation of the data take a lot of time and effort to warranty that the data have been migrated correctly, to offfcourse in case where Oracle are in our company will be always a …
Chose OCI
We wanted to move our heroku service to other cloud platform with better reliability and scalability. So we decided to give it a try.
Chose OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is great because of the ample storage and quick loading times we receive compared to others. The cost is also very manageable. We like how Oracle is structured and we utilize the machine learning and AI built in tools quite often. We are very pleased …
Chose OCI
- Performance was big reason for choosing Oracle Cloud infrastructure over AWS Ec2 and Azure VMware Solutions.- Oracle Database as application design was another reason for choosing Oracle Cloud infrastructure over AWS Ec2 and Azure VMware Solutions.
In turn, OCI was better …
Chose OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) competes with several major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and others.Here is why we consider selecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Strong for Oracle Workloads, …
Chose OCI
We used Microsoft Azure and Docker earlier and faced some difficulties like Microsoft Azure and Docker. Occasionally, the generation of large images can delay deployment. It is also necessary for me to admit that Microsoft Azure and Docker have a somewhat steep learning curve. …
Chose OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides strong and Innovative database services with its enterprise Autonomous Database and Exadata Features. Oracle database management can make huge workloads autonomously. OCI in addition is more cheaper compared to it's other competitors in the …
Chose OCI
Services are almost the same, but OCI can provide more resources at the same price, our application can easily do the migration, and also, OCI also provides free VPC Site to Site VPN, which helps us create a security path from local to remote.
Chose OCI
OCI does not stack up against these products due to their wide range of services, support, and ease of troubleshooting. There is an abundance of tutorials on the services provided by the competition, which makes them more easy to use. However, OCI is very competitive in pricing.
Chose OCI
We use AWS and Google Cloud widely in our organization. However, we also use Oracle Databases for critical business, and OCI integrates well. We use OCI to test out our hypothesis for a rapid product. The Free tier is extremely useful to play around before committing.
Chose OCI
There are numerous cloud providers in the market and I feel Oracle is very underrated for its capabilities and offerings . It has huge potential and it brings in very huge discounts for existing Oracle customers with unlimited licensing , if you are an existing ULA subscriber …
Chose OCI
have used several other cloud functions provided by different companies but I found Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to be more user friendly and easy to understand and implement, also it has a global reach with different regions. OCI also has advantage of different database …
Chose OCI
Oracle continued to focus on larger scale and growth business. We found Microsoft allowed to use as little as needed.
Features
AWS CloudFormationOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
AWS CloudFormation
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Ratings
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
6.8
Ratings
17% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings4.90 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings5.30 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
AWS CloudFormationOracle Cloud Infrastructure
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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Availability
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Performance
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Support Rating
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7.0
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In-Person Training
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9.1
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Online Training
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9.1
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Implementation Rating
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Configurability
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8.0
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Ease of integration
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Product Scalability
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User Testimonials
AWS CloudFormationOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Likelihood to Recommend
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a great fit when you need High-performance infrastructure for mission-critical apps that require low latency and high availability. Scalable compute services for big data analytics workloads that process massive datasets. Support for DevOps teams looking to streamline their development and deployment pipelines. But it might not be the best choice for Small-scale or low-traffic applications where you can find cheaper options elsewhere. Legacy workloads running on older tech like Oracle Solaris or Windows Server, where OCI's support may be limited.
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Pros
  • IaC, transactional on top of that
  • Support for "mainstream" general programming languages
  • Sharable IaC "snippets" that can setup standardized environments for individuals quickly
  • OOP techniques are available thanks to OOP languages
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  • Block Volume provides durability and stability to data. IOPS can be changed on the fly. Always stay true to the promised performance.
  • Block Volume can be encrypted with ease to meet compliance. Can also be easily integrated with OCI vault service for extra security.
  • Object Storage and File Storage are other forms of storage that are secure and extremely easy to configure. FSS is one of the best in the industry when it comes to reliability and performance.
  • SSD block volumes are persistent in OCI unlike many other clouds.
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Cons
  • Error Description upon Failure Needs to be Improved.
  • Slow to create, delete or update.
  • Need to delete resources manually. It can ask before starting deletion whether to skip those resources or delete them.
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  • Navigating the UI takes lots of getting used to. It reminds me of older GCP (just to get used to where everything is).
  • Permission for different things always seemed to be more difficult than it really needed to be. Once you got them set up you were good but updating anything or creating new permissions for just about anything took longer than I thought it should.
  • Based on how the buttons were laid out, it was pretty easy to delete all of your DNS records, and backing them up was not as intuitive as I'd like with the UI, but it was easy to do using a script.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We have been using this product for the last 6 years, and we keep renewing it yearly as we have no issues with this cloud provider. Maybe till we have our products, we will use this cloud and will be renewing it.
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Usability
It's easy enough to get a shared template & apply it. You don't even have to download-then-upload or copy-and-paste, a publicly-accessible url works.
Diving deeper, it has enough powerful capabilities to make the life of a platform / DevOps engineer bearable.
However, you need equally deep knowledge to troubleshoot issues, when they inevitably pop up. This is the same for all IaC technologies, as they are additional abstraction layers on top of the native API provided by the cloud providers.
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The services & products in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure needs more improvement to beat other Cloud service providers. The price is good & Security processes are good. We are requiring to put more effort in supporting this Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than other Cloud service providers. Probably better ways are there but is not super easy to find or not super available
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Reliability and Availability
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Yeah sometimes we had to face unplanned outages due to underlying infrastructure issues, so not every time,e but once in a while we face issues with availability. But the good thing is we have redundancy with DR setup and multi region so we can manage.
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Performance
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure performance is good in terms of querying large datasets, and is also consistent. It integrates well with other third party applications, and doesn't noticeably seem to slow down. Complex analytical queries and reports are processed efficiently even with larger datasets. Auto-scaling has been useful for traffic handling as this is a major challenge for any application.
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Support Rating
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Overall it is amazing, there is always room for improvement. We have weekly updates that tend to slow the program used more and more. We had to change some reports within Oracle because the others wouldn’t load. This is tied to our payroll and the delays are causing many time constraint issues and panic. We have to create a new report when one breaks. Otherwise awesome!
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In-Person Training
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Effective training provided, much data productivity while doing training
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Online Training
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detailed and easy to understand.
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Implementation Rating
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Easy to implement. Easy to navigate
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Alternatives Considered
Since the product I'm involved is primarily hosted on AWS we use CloudFormation but in some other products where we have hybrid cloud deployments we prefer Terraform which is opensource.
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Performance and latency are excellent in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Except for AWS baremetal, I don't find anything like that. I found that, aside from conventional compute that works really good, they also offer HPC VDI. That's one of the strengths that should have more hype in OC advertising. After my tests, that were limited by the trial, I'm a net promoter of the service. I really miss the depth of my RDP connections and response times.
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Scalability
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We have hosted around 500 + customers on this cloud so till day not faced any major issues, so we can use it for any kind of products and it can hold the load and easily scale based on need.
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Return on Investment
  • + We can standup a VPC in minutes
  • - It took a lot of inital time to set up
  • + With logging/rollback, made testing much easier.
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  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has allowed us to manage data at scale with a low barrier to entry
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has allowed us to create experiments and proof of concepts with little risk
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has allowed us to reduce costs we were spending on other cloud providers
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ScreenShots

AWS CloudFormation Screenshots

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OCI Screenshots

Screenshot of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Global FootprintScreenshot of 2-5x Faster Performance vs On-premises and Other Clouds (Storage Review)Screenshot of One Cloud for the Most Intensive Enterprise and Infra-heavy WorkloadsScreenshot of Gen 1 vs Gen 2 Cloud AdvantageScreenshot of Always Free Services