- Script your Cloud Environment
- Template based built
- Use templates and stacks to provision resources.
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and
systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related
AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable
fashion.
You can use the AWS CloudFormation sample
templates or create your own templates to describe your AWS resources, and any
associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your
application. You don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS
services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work. CloudFormation
takes care of this for you. After the AWS resources are deployed, you can
modify and update them in a controlled and predictable way, in effect applying
version control to your AWS infrastructure the same way you do with your
software. You can also visualize your templates as diagrams and edit them using
a drag-and-drop interface with the AWS CloudFormation Designer.