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AWS CloudFormation: Streamlining Infrastructure as Code
As cloud environments grow in complexity, managing infrastructure manually becomes a challenge. Enter AWS CloudFormation — a declarative tool that enables you to define your entire AWS infrastructure as code. With CloudFormation, you outline your resources in a JSON or YAML template, and AWS provisions and configures them automatically in the correct order. This approach enhances control, increases productivity, and helps optimize costs.
What is CloudFormation?
AWS CloudFormation simplifies the creation and management of AWS resources. Instead of provisioning each resource individually, you declare what you need in a CloudFormation template. For example, you can specify:
- A security group for network access
- Two EC2 instances using this security group
- An S3 bucket for storage
- A load balancer (ELB) to distribute traffic between the instances
CloudFormation then deploys these resources with the exact specifications you outline and in the correct order. No manual setup or orchestration is required.
