AWS CloudFormation

Avantages

1. AWS CloudFormation offers me a spectacular platform to build and provision my organization's infrastructure requirements.

2. It provides me the feature of automation with various DevOps software seamlessly.

3. The compliance standards followed for each resource creation is top notch.

4. I can create, modify or delete the stack which is derived from my CloudFormation Template with ease.

5. It brilliantly integrated with multiple third-party software such as Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes through its fascinating API functionality.

Inconvénients

1. Once you create the stack in CloudFormation, you won't be able to change the name of the stack.

2. Deep understanding about the usage of scripts is required in order to establish connection with other resources.

3. For troubleshooting, the tracking of error logs in the associated CloudWatch entries is quite challenging in CloudFormation.

Avantages

This become so easy for the developers to create the templates and makes the Admin's life too easy.

Inconvénients

should have been cloud agnosic as it could have helped for multi-cloud or Hybrid cloud environment.

Avantages

It is easy to provision AWS resources and update them. It supports rollback. It also allows seeing the changes that will be applied using changesets. It is transactional , either all the resources are updated or none are.

Inconvénients

The error messages when running the Cloudformation stacks are sometimes not easy to decipher.

Alternatives envisagées 

Terraform

Pourquoi passer à AWS CloudFormation

We have clear strategy that we will be using only AWS cloud. Cloudformation is better compared to Terraform when it comes to state management of the infra, the possibility of rollback and the transactional nature. In Terraform we have to explicitly maintain the state in S3 bucket. Cloudformation takes care of this as it is managed service. Being transactional , we are guaranteed that the infra will always be in consistent state.

Avantages

It has templates for infrastructure as code.which helps me to save time.

Inconvénients

There can be tutorials powered by AWS itself. So that anyone with basic knowledge can also have ease of access

Avantages

AWS CloudFormation is a infrastructure-as-code solution that allows you to bootstrap infrastructure and services within the AWS space. It contains a very comprehensive set of features to build out infrastructure with the necessary security controls and service integrations that you would need.

Inconvénients

AWS CloudFormation has a steep learning curve for a service that only supports AWS.

Avantages

providing a configuration, provisions the cloud resource as required very instantly. saves a lot of time. can also export existing resource as configuration

Inconvénients

can provide integrations with ide tools like extension for VS Code for even simpler interface.

Avantages

AWS CloudFormation help to automate and deployment of AWS Infrastructure. It is easy to build Templates and and deploy infra into different AWS accounts. and you can easily maintain versioning so if you want build older version infra will be easy. The best thing with AWS is Technical support, There is lot of support documentation and training videos available. Also AWS technical support team is available for 24X7.

Inconvénients

When we do setup multiple AWS Services using AWS console to migrate it to different account AWS cloudFormation has little complex procedure. I feel happy if AWS cloudFormation template gets created with click.

Avantages

The thing I like most about this software is that it has a ton of features. Also, it supports various IAAS like terraform, etc., and other serverless frameworks too. It is very easy to use and you can easily find good documentation about this. Also, the design tool of cloud formation is very good.

Inconvénients

There are no cons to this software. It servers its purpose.

Avantages

aws cloud formation can creates cloud infrastructure using declarative method without manual intervention.This helps creating cloud infra irrespective of AWS UI updates .It enable resource creation with simple commands and templates, enable complex cloud infrastructure creations and troubleshooting guide. There is large aws support to solve issue related to cloudformation template.

Inconvénients

Template creation can be excausting due to interconnecting components when multiple resources are used and they are interlinked to transfer data within the resource.
Managing and viewing budget and cost of resources utilized would not be available at ease and would need to login to console to view billing details.
Creating resources can take time as compared to creating resources in UI as it becomes more interactive experience for developer to exactly view what cloud resources are created and there interlinked components.

Avantages

1. Ease of integration for AWS and other services.
2. Properly documented and extremely smooth deployment process.
3. Ability to write IAAS quickly and with automation for smooth maintenance and replication activities.

Inconvénients

1. Difficult to start with because learning the product is quite tricky.
2. Can be use for AWS hosted machines and services.
3. Managing and balancing billing is difficult.

Avantages

1. It is basically a one-click deployment tool where we can test the application code without any concerns of taking maintenance or replication.
2. Helps in automatically building of code which remove the necessity of having developement as a prior experience.
3. We can collaboratively work on all the deployed VMs smoothly instead of going one by one in all the machine.

Inconvénients

1. Difficulty in handling of errors after deploying.
2. Huge learning curve in starting of all the services in AWS , we can't rely on documentation only.
3. More large templates , more difficult to handle.

Avantages

CloudFormation ensures that infrastructure is deployed in a predictable and consistent manner, reducing manual errors.

Inconvénients

Large stacks can be slow, and rollbacks can take a long time if a failure occurs.

Avantages

It's a fast way to create infrastructure in AWS. Also, since Cloudformation can be setup in multiple stacks, it is easy to maintain.

Inconvénients

Many times the CloudFormation deployment fails after trying for a long time, which is frustrating. Also, the error messages are not easy to understand.

Avantages

Template builder, Infrastructure Provisioning, Stack Visibility, History and Tracking.

Inconvénients

Sometimes stacks takes time to delete due to correlation of resources. Need to delete resources manually.

Avantages

Infrastructure-as-code best practices, infrastructure configuration in a template based approach, infrastructure automation provisioning, cost savings, no manual overhead

Inconvénients

Need support for multi cloud Infrastructure configurations similar to Terraform tool

Avantages

For streaming purposes, I'm using it to build a clustering solution. It is the greatest tool for delivering packages, especially because the AWS CloudFormation template includes settings for Lambda, Sagemaker, and other services.

Inconvénients

There is nothing wrong with this tool, but there is a need for development in terms of setting dependencies between two stacks.

Avantages

I like that AWS CloudFormation provides documentation to explain everything a good interface. Also, i like that AWS CloudFormation always reminds me if I exceed the budget is determined. AWS CloudFormation allows me to update my stack after it has been created which is great because sometimes I need to change some things.

Inconvénients

It doesn't allow me to name some of the used resources.
Some of the error messages need deeper explanations so I can fix them easily.

Avantages

It makes deploying EC2 instances so easy. With a few clicks and customization, you have a full fledged stack ready

Inconvénients

Editing the Cloudformation template can be challenging. The format available is only JSON/YAML which limits the customization.

Avantages

With some level of AWS experience, I was able to start using cloud formation. As I got experience with other AWS services I could easily map it to my Cloud Formation stack. So basically my cloud formation skills grow at the same time as my AWS skills grows.

Inconvénients

I was hoping this tool also support a basic editor view which allows me to design my AWS architecture without providing all the details. More like draw.io functionality. I'd like to keep all my AWS design artifacts in AWS other than back and forth between draw.io and AWS cloud formation

Avantages

CloudFormation makes managing AWS resources a breeze. Consistent deployments across all regions has been an absolute game changer. The interface is very user friendly

Inconvénients

Deleting resources can sometimes be a pain. It would be good to have a "force delete" option that will blitz resources regardless of the deletion policy.

Avantages

User have the ability to destroy and re-create an infrastructure on the cloud on the fly. No need to create the resources manually. Everything will be deployed using cloudformation template (Yaml file). All the templates can be uploaded in S3. CloudFormation template helps us to create the resources in the right order with the exact configuration that we specify in the template.

Inconvénients

As of now, there are no cons i have identified for this product.

Avantages

It is very rich and inclued almost all of AWS services. The GUI is very good and the outcome looks great. It validates the architecture very well and provides proper warning and suggestions as needed.

Inconvénients

There is a learning curve with this tool. Even as an experienced DevOps person you need to spend good amount of time to learn important features of this tool.