AWS CloudFormation vs. ArchFormation vs. Cloudify vs. JavaScript Comparison Chart

AWS CloudFormation is a infrastructure provisioning and management tool that provides you the ability to create resource templates that specifies a set of AWS resources to provision. The templates allow you to version control your infrastructure, and also easily replicate your infrastructure stack quickly and with repeatability. Define an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnet or provisioning services like AWS OpsWorks or Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with ease. Run anything from a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance to a complex multi-region application. Automate, test, and deploy infrastructure templates with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automation. AWS CloudFormation lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. Speed up cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code.

Manage all private and public environments from one platform using a single CI/CD plugin that connects to ALL automation toolchains. Including Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Azure ARM and more. No installation, no downloads … and on us for the first 30 days. Built-in integration with infrastructure orchestration domains including AWS Cloud formation, Azure ARM, Ansible and Terraform. Service Composition Domain-Specific Language (DSL) – simplifies the relationship between services, handling cascading workflows, shared resources, distributed life-cycle management and more. Orchestration of cloud native Kubernetes services across multiple clusters: OpenShift, GKE, EKS, AKS and KubeSpray. Access a built-in blueprint to automate cluster setup and configuration. Built-in integration with Jenkins and other CI/CD platforms providing a ‘one-stop-shop’ for integrating all orchestration domains to your CI/CD pipeline.