AWS CloudFormation vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

AWS CloudFormation

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Ansible	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.	$5,000 per year

Pricing

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account: $0.00
Handler Operation: $0.0009
per handler operation

Basic Tower: 5,000
per year
Enterprise Tower: 10,000
per year
Premium Tower: 14,000
per year

Pricing Offerings
AWS CloudFormation	Ansible
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

No setup fee

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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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	AWS CloudFormation	Ansible
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	Red Hat No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

Comparison of Configuration Management features of AWS CloudFormation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Feature	AWS CloudFormation - Ratings	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 8.6 44 Ratings
Infrastructure Automation	00 Ratings	9.244 Ratings
Automated Provisioning	00 Ratings	8.841 Ratings
Parallel Execution	00 Ratings	8.840 Ratings
Node Management	00 Ratings	8.432 Ratings
Reporting & Logging	00 Ratings	7.841 Ratings
Version Control	00 Ratings	8.738 Ratings

User Ratings
	AWS CloudFormation	Ansible
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (5 ratings)	9.5 (108 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.7 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (3 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (5 ratings)

AWS CloudFormation vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

AWS CloudFormation

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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