# Page 3 | AWS CloudFormation Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 3 - Is AWS CloudFormation the right Cloud Management solution for you? Explore 106 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/205397/CloudFormation/reviews --- AWS CloudFormation 4.5 (106) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/205397/CloudFormation/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 3 - Reviews of AWS CloudFormation ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 51-75 of 106 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use GM Govind M. Founder Information Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Review for AWS CloudFormation" December 14, 2024 5.0 overall experince with AWS CloudFormation is good. Pros its interface is very good and easy to navigate Cons sometimes it is slow so that time delay sucks. Review Source FP Franco P. Owner Research Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "AWS for Small Business " December 23, 2024 4.0 Ok, it is a good product but needs price adjustment. Pros It was easy to upload and save data. Simple and effective. Cons Too expensive for the service if your a small business Review Source JS Jyoti S. Admin Accounting Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "AWS CloudFormation: Easy way" December 19, 2024 5.0 AWS CloudFormation is the best infrastructure for handling and managing AWS resources. Pros It's so easy to handle for different resources quickly and consistently. Cons it isn't easy to work with in multi-region and multi-account scenarios. Review Source cM colton M. lock room and receiving Construction Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Awesome product " January 3, 2025 5.0 my overall experience with this has been great everything i need Pros Everything about this software is amazing and super helpful Cons there was honestly nothing that i disliked about this Review Source SM Shambhavi M. Radio tendering Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "The AWS CloundFormation feedback" January 8, 2025 5.0 The overall expereience will be smooth and only few challenges. Pros very good automation and support in performing tasks Cons Sometimes it hangs while performing the commands Review Source JT Jamie T. Owner Construction Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great application" December 13, 2024 4.0 My experiance with this software was very good. Pros The ability to place things in the cloud for later use. Cons There wasn't anything that I didn't like about Cloudformation Review Source VR Verified Reviewer DevOps & Cloud Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "AWS's take on IaC" December 10, 2022 5.0 Overall good, but not the market leader. Would be good to start using IaC but there are better solutions. Pros Included as a service in the AWS platform, can be used to provision infrastructure and services. Cons 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. Alternatives considered [Terraform](https://www.capterra.com/p/179262/HashiCorp/) Reason for choosing AWS CloudFormation Not this time. Switched from [Terraform](https://www.capterra.com/p/179262/HashiCorp/) Much better IaC tool, cloud agnostic and supports multi-cloud deployments. Review Source Raamnaaraayan R. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Infra-Provisioning Made Exceptional with AWS CloudFormation" September 25, 2021 4.0 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. Pros 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. Cons 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. Switched from [Chef Enterprise Automation Stack](https://www.capterra.com/p/170467/Chef/)[GitLab](https://www.capterra.com/p/159806/GitLab/)[Puppet Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/124189/Puppet-Enterprise/) The switch to AWS CloudFormation was made because all of our client requirements were entirely based on AWS Resources. The best way of handling your Infra-provisioning using AWS Resources is exceptionally done by AWS CloudFormation Review Source OI Omer I. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Valuable tool for DevOps and infrastructure engineers" April 13, 2022 4.0 CloudFormation had a bit of a learning curve, but once we laid out these foundations, the development, debugging, and deployment became faster and more reliable. Pros CloudFormation helped us build our infrastructure quickly and reliably on AWS. Without much knowledge about infrastructure or AWS, we could use the documentation, references, and code samples of CloudFormation stacks provided by AWS and the OSS community to build our infrastructure. Instead of navigating AWS Console and being confused, we could copy/paste the resource name or configuration property to Google and quickly know what it's for and how to use it. Sharing knowledge among team members is automatic since anyone can look at the code to see the current state of the infrastructure. CloudFormation will save you plenty of time if you have multiple environments for your application. You create one template and use it for all of your environments, knowing that they will behave as expected. Cons CloudFormation templates cannot have complex logic, making them easy to understand, but this limited logic support sometimes forced us to create separate files for our development and production environments. Review Source Chetan Y. Senior Engineering Lead Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best IAC tool for AWS Cloud" April 13, 2021 5.0 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 Pros 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. Cons The error messages when running the Cloudformation stacks are sometimes not easy to decipher. Alternatives considered [Terraform](https://www.capterra.com/p/179262/HashiCorp/) Reason for choosing 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. Review Source AB Anis B. Software Development Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Fast infrastructure setup and review" February 10, 2023 4.0 Use CloudFormation to create and maintain infrastructure. AWS team needs to work on the bugs. Pros It's a fast way to create infrastructure in AWS. Also, since Cloudformation can be setup in multiple stacks, it is easy to maintain. Cons Many times the CloudFormation deployment fails after trying for a long time, which is frustrating. Also, the error messages are not easy to understand. Review Source Aditya S. Backend Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "One of the best cloud services " October 6, 2021 4.0 My overall experience was nice, It takes your application to a whole different level. Right now, A lot of companies are using cloud services to make thier application much more robust and easy to use and I feel one of the leading cloud providers are AWS. Pros The best thing about AWS Cloud is that, It has a lot of different features that we can use to make our app much more robust, fast and easy to use. It proivdes us with functions like cloud watch and email sending which we can use to keep an watch on our application and notify the developer whenever something happens. Cons The documentation for AWS Cloud is not upto the mark, As a begineer I found it a bit too hard to understand. A lot of the things were not clear and I was only able to make use of the features with the help of my superior Review Source VC Vincent C. Development Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great cloud templating solution for AWS." March 26, 2022 4.0 Pros Very comprehensive and low level schema that allows capability to template up the desired cloud solution Cons Cloudformation can sometimes fail to update stacks due to drift issues. Have to be extra cautious changing some resource parameters, can cause 'new' instances to of the resources to be created instead of updating the existing resource. Alternatives considered [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/)[Google Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/268690/Google-Cloud-Platform/) Reason for choosing AWS CloudFormation cheaper Switched from [Heroku](https://www.capterra.com/p/158191/Heroku/) More mature product and cheaper to run resourc es Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Spin up infrastructure at ease" October 14, 2022 4.0 Its amazing...with studio also you don't need to even write the code just drag and drop resources and you're ready to go. Pros Very easy to use ..just you need to write yaml or json code for creating infrastructure and it will create all the resources you need smoothly. Also, it does not make you pay for doing this..its free, you just need to pay for resources created. Cons Everything's awesome but one version control system should be integrated to maintain version of stacks Reason for choosing AWS CloudFormation AWS managed Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Assistant Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "AWS CloudFormation - Impressive " March 15, 2022 5.0 AWS CloudFormation is an outstanding AWS service. I have been using it to deploy a VPS in minutes as it does most of the work resource wise and only few parameters needs to be taken care of while deploying. CloudFormation helps with continuous delivery and deployment of resources small of big without taking too much time. Working on different environments using the same template helps make it easier with cloudformation. Pros Template builder, Infrastructure Provisioning, Stack Visibility, History and Tracking. Cons Sometimes stacks takes time to delete due to correlation of resources. Need to delete resources manually. Review Source KR Kesavan R. Research Executive Research Used the software for: 1-2 years ### ""AWS" The Cloud God" May 29, 2023 5.0 Pros It is very easy to use for new users and it's very easy to explain for the freshers. Since we have integrated AWS with other apps to upload and download our inputs and outputs, it works well with integration as well. Cons Nothing much as a negative but sometimes if the servers get down we won't be able to start our Jupiter notebook to run our codes. Review Source Hardik D. Automation Specialist Consumer Goods Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Remove time spent doing repetitive task in cloud provisioning with cloudformation" February 17, 2022 5.0 Pros providing a configuration, provisions the cloud resource as required very instantly. saves a lot of time. can also export existing resource as configuration Cons can provide integrations with ide tools like extension for VS Code for even simpler interface. Review Source Animesh S. System Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best Iaas tool in the market." April 22, 2022 5.0 AWS CloudFormation has all the capabilities that many DevOps tools have. Pros 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. Cons There is nothing wrong with this tool, but there is a need for development in terms of setting dependencies between two stacks. Review Source Abhilash C. Graphic designer Graphic Design Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Better Than AZURE??" March 4, 2023 5.0 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 Pros 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 Cons 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 Switched from [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/) not many features in the azure as ompared to aws cloud formation Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior AWS Data Engineer Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Help to build AWS Infra on clicks." June 8, 2021 5.0 Overall it is very good service to minimize and reuse all infra building work. Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source AO Adebayo O. HelpDesk Support Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Infrastructure BluePrint" January 10, 2022 5.0 Overall, our experience with AWS CLoudFormation has been satisfactory and we're loving it. Pros Being able to spin up resources on AWS cloud through a template is one feature that would always stand out for me. CloudFormation enables one to automate the entire build process when spinning up a new server or resources with predefined configuration in your template. Cons You have to be well vast with YAML to be able to use this, while this shouldn't be much of a big deal for software developers, it does make template configuration a bit confusing for those without programming experience. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Marketing Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The AWS review" March 26, 2022 4.0 Pros It assists us in a variety of ways in completing our tasks. With cloud formation, managing, adding, updating, and deleting resources is also a breeze. It has fantastic community support, which I can use to refer to and put into effect the finest deployment tactics. I utilise a combination of CloudFormation and CodePipeline to automate the delivery of numerous resources such that their integrity and customizations are not compromised. Cons It's as easy as it seems; you can create a template that will launch various Amazon services. There is no equivalent. Review Source Nhan N. Senior Software Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best AWS IaC tools for complex system" September 6, 2022 5.0 Pros I can deploy complex infrastructure stack on AWS using code. We can use the source file to spin up another environment within minutes. Cons Only supports AWS services. Sometimes rollback feature does not work correctly, I have to find and delete the resources manually. Review Source Chamaru A. Developer Newspapers Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Automated Infrastructure deployment unlike any other service." March 31, 2022 5.0 Super satisfied. Pros This service helps our team to deploy infrastructure in a breeze within the extensive AWS services pool with ease. Also, you can find community-driven templates which make the deployment of infrastructure so much easier. Cons In the beginning, it was not an easy task to learn the basics and how to use this tool. But learning it was a great investment towards automating the deployment of infrastructure. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "One of the best cloud automation services" December 17, 2022 4.0 Pros 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. Cons 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. Review Source Similar Products Featured