AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code Service

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.

What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code service that provides a common language for you to model and provision AWS and third party resources in your cloud environment. CloudFormation allows developers and systems administrators to use a JSON- or YAML-based template to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts. This gives you coordination, governance, and consistency across your AWS resources.

Some key capabilities and features of CloudFormation include:

• Infrastructure as code - Model your infrastructure resources as code using JSON or YAML template files
• Cost control - Prevent unintended service or resource usages with guardrails and policies
• Infrastructure consistency - Maintain consistency and control across different environments
• Infrastructure automation - Speed up new stack creation and updates
• Infrastructure monitoring - Get enhanced visibility into resource relationships and drift detection
• Support for many AWS resource types - Deploy and manage a wide range of AWS services with CloudFormation
• Extendability with Custom Resources -Integrate your own custom logic or 3rd party APIs

With AWS CloudFormation, you can increase developer productivity by reducing time spent on manual processes, while also improving flexibility, cost predictability and security. Companies like Airbnb, Dow Jones and Expedia use CloudFormation.

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