AWS CloudFormation vs. Vultr

Vultr

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AWS CloudFormation	Score 8.8 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
Vultr	Score 6.8 out of 10	N/A	Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.	$1 per month

Pricing

AWS CloudFormation

Vultr

Editions & Modules

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

Block Storage: $1
per month
Cloud Compute: $2.50
per month
Object Storage: $5
per month
Kubernetes Engine: $10
per month
Load Balancers: $10
per month
Managed Databases: $15
per month
Optimized Cloud Compute: $28
per month
Cloud GPU: $90
per month
Bare Metal: $120
per month

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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.

Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.

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Community Pulse
	AWS CloudFormation	Vultr
Considered Both Products	AWS CloudFormation Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Manuela Jacqueline Mercado Rodríguez Senior Full Stack Developer 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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?	Vultr Isaac Gomez CTO Chose Vultr 4Thought Marketing Automation Services Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Price to performance ratio and ease of managemenated Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Cost of bandwidth and network quality for us is what mattered. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is cheaper than most providers. Only contabo is cheaper, but they have lower uptime. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr comes in at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of the breadth of the services they provide compared to the larger vendors, but they are consistently demonstrating their commitment to growing their service offering and platform features. We selected Vultr because of … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Honor Chief Information Officer Chose Vultr Vultr has a greater offering of servers whilst staying reasonably priced compared to some of the larger infrastructure providers. They may not have all the services as some of the other providers but they don't need it when they can do what they do with the services they provide. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr On shared services, such as VPS, I have noticed greater confidence of usability and resource availability with Vultr. Incentivized Helpful? David Collins App developer Chose Vultr Vultr is much cheaper than AWS, and also simpler to set up and use Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr We did extensive performance comparisons and testing and Vultr was not only better priced, but much better on the performance and speed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr AWS and Azure are too complicated and costly for small businesses like ours. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Brown Enterprise Security Solutions Architect Chose Vultr Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable … Incentivized Helpful? MT Mark Tenney CEO/Founder Chose Vultr The performance beats upcloud. The only thing I really liked about upcloud better was the backup offerings. They had more flexible backup plans, but I love the every other night plan on Vultr as well. Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Convirs Business Owner Chose Vultr For someone who has a more technical background, there is no competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Server updates are clear and always noticed on the platform which my last company did not have clear. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr CloudCo was not listed. In comparison, the pricing of the competition is in a place where I wouldn't retain any margin for smaller customers, that's why I use Vultr for those. Vultr's self serve interface and UI is much better and more customizable for the general architect. If … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr has been a more cost effective solution in some areas. Compared to AWS EC2, Vultr has been a lot more cost effective for our environment. Vultr has the right vCPU, RAM, and storage for our needs. In the object storage space, Vultr has not been the best fit for our … Incentivized Helpful? HB Hector Burciaga CEO Chose Vultr Vultr offers the same services as all the major cloud providers however Vulr offers a clear pricing modeling with no hidden fees. This has been incisive in deciding which provider to go with. I have never encountered any downtime with their services Technically, Vultr has the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Incredible performance to cost ratio. I absolutely love Vultr for minimizing costs associated with running a one-man operation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr They are very similar but we are more comfortable with Vultr Incentivized Helpful? BJ Brian Johnson Business Owner Chose Vultr From the perspective of the above, Vultr provides the best balance of cost vs. performance for us. Cloudways stacks a large fee for each VPS you spin up, and this quickly escalates. Linode comes closest (at least when I used it a few years ago) to Vultr, and 3 years ago this … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is much easier to get started with, less things to configure, a simpler interface. To deploy and manage a server is much easier. I am sure for a production SaaS app there are features in AWS and Azure that are needed, but for dev/test environment, I prefer Vultr. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr It is reliable, stable and very manageable, but, I think, very expensive too Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is a dream to use after coming from AWS - the products are intuitively named, don't require gaining a certification to use, and have better documentation. Vultr's documentation is a little less comprehensive and organized than google cloud's; however, its pricing and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Much easier to deploy and manged than AWS Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Linode: Similar pricing, changed our business over to Vultr to save credit card fees by using Crypto. Digital Ocean: Fast and reliable, same pricing didn't stay because the payment methods (Similar case to Linode) Hetzner: Good pricing, good reputation, limited locations. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

AWS CloudFormation

Vultr

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	AWS CloudFormation - Ratings	Vultr 2.8 Ratings 97% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	2.80 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	2.40 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	2.60 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	2.70 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	2.10 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	2.70 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	2.90 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	4.50 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	2.20 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	AWS CloudFormation	Vultr
Small Businesses	HashiCorp Terraform Score 8.5 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Ansible Score 9.2 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
	AWS CloudFormation	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (0 ratings)	2.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AWS CloudFormation	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	Cloning a virtual machine creates a virtual machine that is a copy of the original. The new virtual machine is configured with the Cloning 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 for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource Management Guide. For information 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 for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource. Management guide. For information virtual hardware, installed software 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 for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource Management Guide. For information and other properties that were configured for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere Resource Management Guide. For information. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Vultr is well suited for South African based organisations as they have a presence here. It makes dev servers for WordPress more feasible. Having to wait on roundtrips from EU or US slow things down. Ease of setting up new servers, with clear information on what you are getting for what you pay, makes it so easy to spin up just what you need. With a large range of specifications it means you can find that sweet spot of cost vs. performance. BJ Brian Johnson Business Owner Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The uptime is perfect . If there are any downtimes it is well informed and its in non - production hours to ensure that the systems are not hit Accessibility and the dashboard is amazing where you have full control over the VPS system. The flexibility of OS on which to create your VPS is also amazing . Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	the ability of increasing a specific configuration without the need of upgrading the whole plan, for example i might need to add more memory but i'm satisfied with my current processors and hard disk capacity (or vise versa) Solving the problems of taking an image to the server if the server capacity (hard disk) is bigger than 1TB (which i'm currently facing a big problem because of that) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	We’ve been extremely satisfied with the service for many years. After trying other providers, we’ve found nothing that matches the reliability and performance—so we’re not likely to switch anytime soon. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	easy to use and configure. great bang for the buck. I need an affordable solution to host in the cloud data from systems installed at our client's site with the ability to drill down and change the configuration remotely. Vultr enabled us to do that in an efficient and affordable way. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Because of the 24 hour turnaround timing with servers I need immediate reply Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Nothing in particular to share that I did not already discuss Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable hosting I would recommend to anyone. It helped me easily scale and expand my business. Incentivized Ben Brown Enterprise Security Solutions Architect Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Vultr allowed us to have an online presence without breaking the bank Vultr allows us to offer an online access to the business services that we offer our clients beyond the systems installed on premises. We are planning on using Vultr more in the coming months as a standard feature to our Real-Time Energy Monitoring platform Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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