How AWS CloudFormation helps streamline cloud resources

September 27, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Dan Sullivan.

Deploying and configuring AWS resources can be time consuming and error-prone. If you ever had to configure an application stack using someone else’s janky documentation, you will appreciate AWS CloudFormation.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFormation allows developers to capture the state of existing platforms, tailor them to additional requirements and redeploy them as needed, in an automated way. It is designed to streamline the process of managing resources, such as storage, servers and security controls…


The service uses configuration files that describe a set of resources launched together as a single application platform called a stack. CloudFormation automates the way developers deploy servers and configure services, such as a relational database service. It uses four essential types of information about your platform: AWS resources, parameters, mappings and conditions. These are captured in a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file, known as a template, which the AWS CloudFormation workflow system runs…

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