G2 Vendor Directory

AWS CloudFormation vs. ControlMonkey

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAWS CloudFormation

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

ControlMonkey

by ControlMonkey

Overall rating4.45.0
Review count21411
Ease of use8.310.0
Ease of setup8.59.8
Quality of support8.810.0
Meets requirements8.99.8
NPS56.084656100
Small Business17.4%0.0%
Mid-Market39.9%72.7%
Enterprise42.7%27.3%
Total page views243176
Total LLM citations280296

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is a service that enables users to model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources in a secure and automated manner. By defining infrastructure as code through JSON or YAML templates, CloudFormation allows for consistent and repeatable deployment of resources, facilitating efficient management of complex infrastructures. Key Features and Functionality: - Infrastructure as Code: Define and provision AWS resources using JSON or YAML templates, enabling version control and repeatable deployments.

Pros

  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Automation Efficiency
  • Ease of Use
  • Efficiency
  • Deployment Ease
  • Easy Integrations

ControlMonkey

ControlMonkey is a Cloud Disaster Recovery and Configuration Resilience platform that helps organizations make cloud and SaaS configurations recoverable at enterprise scale. The platform enables DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, and SRE teams to continuously discover assets, create automated recovery points, track configuration changes, and restore known-good states after incidents. Unlike traditional backup solutions that focus on data and workloads, ControlMonkey protects the configurations required to operate modern cloud environments.

Pros