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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS CloudFormation

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAWS 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.…

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    UpCloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AUpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.

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    Pricing
    AWS CloudFormationUpCloud
    Editions & Modules
    Free Tier - 1,000 Handler Operations per Month per Account
    $0.00
    Handler Operation
    $0.0009
    per handler operation
    Private Cloud Storage
    €0.085
    per month per GB
    Block Storage - Standard
    €0.085
    per month
    Block Storage - MaxIOPS
    €0.220
    per month
    SDN Private Networks - Floating IP address
    €3.15
    per month
    Private Cloud Hosts -Standard Nodes
    €2,499
    per month
    Cloud Servers - General Purpose
    Starting from €7
    per month
    GPU Servers
    Starting from €1.111
    per hour
    Cloud Servers - High CPU
    Starting from €130
    per month
    Cloud Servers - Developer
    Starting from €3
    per month
    Cloud Servers - High Memory
    Starting from €40
    per month
    Cloud Servers - Cloud Native
    Starting from €12
    per month
    Relational Databases - 1 Node
    Starting from €30
    per month
    Managed Object Storage
    starting from €5
    per month 250GB
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS CloudFormationUpCloud
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThere 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.Exact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    80%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Features
    AWS CloudFormationUpCloud
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of AWS CloudFormation and UpCloud
    Feature
    AWS CloudFormation
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    Ratings
    UpCloud
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AWS CloudFormationUpCloud
    Small Businesses
    Salt
    Score6.2 out of 10
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Perforce Puppet
    Score8.9 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Config
    Score7 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS CloudFormationUpCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
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    5.5
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    User Testimonials
    AWS CloudFormationUpCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    AWS CloudFormation is well suited for scenarios where all of your resources need to be provisioned on AWS but it is not suited for hybrid cloud deployments. It's very easy for someone new to learn. The level of customization offered as part of the template specifically for AWS services is great. There is also a UI tool where we can drag and drop the services we want and it generates an yaml file which is very easy to use. The visibility of stacks and its resources and one place where we can track and identify the issues in deployment is great.
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    UpCloud
    If you're looking for a cost-effective solution then this is a good choice, be sure to keep on top of your balance! The 100% uptime is also a nice addition, although not unique in a cloud hosting service.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • 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
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    UpCloud
    • Pricing
    • Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
    • Great customer service
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • 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.
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    UpCloud
    • The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified
    • A control panel function would be useful
    • The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment!
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    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.
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    UpCloud
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    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 for the original virtual machine. For information about persistent memory and PMem storage, see the vSphere 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. Management guide.For information copy of the original. The new virtual Cloning 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 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
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    UpCloud
    We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • + We can standup a VPC in minutes
    • - It took a lot of inital time to set up
    • + With logging/rollback, made testing much easier.
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    UpCloud
    • The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing
    • To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean
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    AWS CloudFormation Screenshots

    Screenshot of CloudFormation - How it works overviewScreenshot of CloudFormation - High level how it worksScreenshot of CloudFormation - Template exampleScreenshot of CloudFormation - Template inputs overview

    UpCloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of UpCloud cloud serversScreenshot of UpCloud backup, with SnapShooterScreenshot of UpCloud server, with RunCloud