AWS CloudFormation vs Datadog: Which is best for you?

AWS CloudFormation provides an easy way to deploy aws artifacts in a declarative way, you can learn the syntax of each resource from aws documentation easily, you can use aws existing CI/CD pipelines to do the deployment and for testing too.

only supports yaml/json and not easy to debug when you have errors in code and can't integrate other services outside of AWS.

Incident response was enhanced since logs, traces, and metrics are combined, and security investigations are seamless for all cloud clients.

Cost management requires constant attention, and certain features can become hard to justify purely from a pricing standpoint.