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.

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

1. I make the best out of CloudFormation for performing all my Infra-Implementations in my Dev, QA, Pre-Prod & Prod Environments. 2. It has amazing community support from which I can refer and practice best strategies for my deployments. 3. For detailed clarification regarding the features, excellent customer service support is provided by AWS. 4. It has a well-designed Documentation which helps me to effectively use the features and integrate with other AWS services. 5. The cost management by making use of its Stack creation is marvelous and no resource will be running in the background once you've decided to delete the stack. 6. For automation of multiple resources, I make use of combining CloudFormation with CodePipeline so that I can deliver my resources without any compromise in its integrity or configurations.

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.

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.

i've been using this software from an year now,so..far it's been working well .the features and functionality has its own flexubility for the user to use the software.the pricing can be lowered to gain edge over the competetors

it has great user interface it has user freindly inerface which helps the user easy to navigateeasy to customize and makes chages to the datait aslo has the code controling feature which helps the userthe account authentication and restrictions are easy to add

there are many features which makes the layout climsyit has ocassional server runtime crashesand it is too much expensive as comppared to its competators like google and microsoft azure

So far it has served us well, but we are moving to CDK in the near future

- Templates are written in a YAML subset, which is arguably preferable to JSON - It provides many options to properly manage the stacks lifecycle - When coupling with Cloud Development Kit, it makes up for a powerful IaC solution for AWS - As with any other AWS service, you can manage CloudFormation in the best way that fancy your team needs

- It's hard to understand that some resources that are possible to tag, don't support tagging in the templates - Templates can get complex over time

Overall good, but not the market leader. Would be good to start using IaC but there are better solutions.

Included as a service in the AWS platform, can be used to provision infrastructure and services.

It's not vendor neutral which can be a problem with multi-cloud deployment which can be a problem, the competitor Terraform has many more features.

It's been a learning experience working with AWS CloudFormation. When I started, it was a little overwhelming for me with so many bits working together. Now that I have a grasp on it, I can easily deploy really powerful error-free stacks from the AWS marketplace error-free.

Scaling up! It's so easy to scale up and scale down your EC2 instance depending on your requirement at any particular time. This saves your costs hourly and in the long run.

Not much is wrong with CloudFormation on AWS. However, it is not easy for a first-time no-code builder to deploy an error-free stack. You have to know what you are doing when deploying a stack or updating it! As a no-code builder like myself, I made many mistakes setting up my first stack. So please watch tutorials and go through enough learning material and equip yourself to deploy your stack correctly.

If your entire infrastructure is in AWS cloud, then this is the best IAC tool. I would say even better than Terraform in certain aspects if you are not aiming multicloud or hybrid cloud

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.

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

Use CloudFormation to create and maintain infrastructure. AWS team needs to work on the bugs.

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

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

I can deploy complex infrastructure stack on AWS using code. We can use the source file to spin up another environment within minutes.

Only supports AWS services. Sometimes rollback feature does not work correctly, I have to find and delete the resources manually.

Overall, AWS CloudFormation is an essential tool for anyone looking to maximize the benefits of AWS and simplify their cloud infrastructure management.

AWS CloudFormation is a powerful tool that enables users to easily and efficiently manage their cloud resources at scale. With CloudFormation, users can quickly provision and configure a wide range of AWS resources, including EC2 instances, load balancers, and databases, using templates that define the infrastructure and configurations. By automating the deployment and management of resources, CloudFormation helps users to streamline their workflows, reduce errors, and ensure consistency across their environments.

CloudFormation can be complex and difficult to learn, especially for users who are new to AWS.

AWS CloudFormation has all the capabilities that many DevOps tools have.

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.

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

Multiple locations and databases . Some services aren't available everywhere .US Virgina servers is awesome and had Evey new update

AWS has a great CMS IAM were easy to use to add users . Setting admins and restrictions to Accounts were easy to setup up.

2 factor authentication sometime would rest multiple times durning server run time which causes disrubtions .wehn scaling up servers you may get over charged .

Its really nice full of learning and time saving is great

Agility and change management are the key features which helps daily. Also having code controlling things always gives more confidence which is great

Too many options but if we master some limited features we could really use this more efficiently

AWS cloud formation is a great service offering. What I like the most is that I can set up any form of cloud tech stack for my projects and automate my entire deployment lifecycle.

AWS Cloud Formation is great but sometimes if I create a few resources using cloud formation and then later if I delete those resources directly then the resource configuration lying inside cloud formation glitches, ideally it should detect that the underlying resource no longer exists and it should give an option to recreate the resource or delete the entire resource.

CloudFormation may be ideal for you if you're a 100% AWS shop and have no intention whatsoever of looking at outside products. However, consider the vibrant community that Terraform has. It's a real alternative, and AWS has even picked up development of the Terraform provider for AWS.

CloudFormation, like many other services, is designed for AWS from the ground up. It's supported by the developers, and it shows in how you're able to roll back changes, etc, which can't be done with Terraform.

The syntax is significantly more confusing (to me) than Terraform. HashiCorp's HCL makes it a lot easier to write and visualize what I'm trying to create. CloudFormation only works on AWS; if you'll be working on anything else, you'll have to learn a different tool.

Easy to implement, needs to know either of the 2 languages- Yml, json. Extensive documentation and customer support. Always enhancing features.

No 'ideal' programming language which leads to learning either yaml/JSON. Debugging issues in CloudFormation templates is time consuming.