AWS Service Catalog Reviews & Product Details

What I like most about AWS Service Catalog is how it helps organizations standardize and govern infrastructure provisioning across teams, while still giving developers a self-service way to request approved resources. Platform teams can publish pre-approved products—such as VPCs, EC2 instances, RDS databases, or even complete application stacks—which helps maintain consistency and supports security and compliance.

I also appreciate its seamless integration with Infrastructure as Code, since it makes it easier to enforce organizational standards without slowing down development teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial setup requires careful planning around portfolios, products, launch constraints, IAM permissions, and version management. For smaller organizations, this can feel more complex than necessary—especially if you only have a few AWS users or limited governance requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Service Catalog makes it easy to share your applications across different clients from a centralised location. It also lets you define constraints as to what the client can do with the published application or IaC scripts. Furthermore, you can give customised options with SSM documents for the client to perform actions on the scripts. Also a lot of collaboration is possible, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing, the fact that for each provisioning, 6 API Calls are needed and pricing starts after 1000 api calls, with 6 API calls, 100 seems less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since managing the data at any platform is a task for every organisation, with the help of AWS Service catalog this problem gets resolved as this is the only place needed aby any user where all the could resources can be managed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since understanding cloud based architechture need a bit difficult to understand, AWS Catalog can be bit difficult for the first tiem migrators. but later its can be the most usefull resource for anyone who wants to manage the data at one place on coud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS service catalogs allow any organization to create, manage, and share catalogs of IT products and services that are approved for use on AWS. It allows you to share simple to complex services, e.g., Amazon S3 buckets as a simple service and multi-tier autoscaling (ASG). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its charges are high, charging you on an hourly basis. Each portfolio, which is comprised of a grouping of products along with related configuration details, is charged at a fixed cost of $5 per month. It should vary based on product and service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration and automation of all our services through the catalog item is very useful and efficient for our processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Updating the records in CMDB should be more robust. also it would be nice if it can bring all the attributes from cloud to snow so that we don't depend on discovery much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Secure data storage.

Reliability.

Less downtime.

Faster data retrieval.

Easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Costly compared to other alternatives.

Billing is a bit confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use makes is efficient, accessible and it genuinely makes a difference to our users. The ability to categorize in an intuitive manner gives us back control and saves time in the end to end process of service provision Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, the service meets all of my business needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloud platform is the best. Amazon Web Services sometimes acts crazy slow as we are integrating it with ServiceNow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow down in the area of search. Amazon Web Services sometimes acts crazy slow as we are integrating it with ServiceNow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A lot options on Kubernetes technology. Vertical and horizontal scaling is very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

no SMTP servers. AWS own version of Kubernetes means that vendor interportability is very less Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to set up. It works great as a first step toward integrated cloud management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing yet to report. We are looking at moving to Cloud Management to better integrate with AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.