Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud vs AWS CloudFormation
A side-by-side look at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and AWS CloudFormation. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon EC2 is a cloud computing service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows users to launch virtual server instances that run on Amazon's infrastructure. EC2 enables scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to configure a virtual machine.
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code service that allows you to model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. You can use CloudFormation templates to deploy and update a collection of resources together as a single unit.