What is CloudFormation Used For?
CloudFormation is a relatively newer terminology that has recently become a reason for hype for all the right reasons. It is a service that you can use to model and set up your Amazon Web Services infra, so you don’t have to spend much time managing resources. You can dedicate more time focusing on the applications. To do so, you first create a template that describes all the AWS resources you want, and CloudFormation configures those resources. Here are some more ways that CloudFormation makes your work easier. 1. Quick Replication of Your Infrastructure For applications that require more availability, you might replicate them in multiple regions. However, this requires you to replicate all your resources, which can be quite a time-consuming task. To make this job easier, you can use a CloudFormation to create resources consistently, and you can also reuse your templates to simplify the task further. 2. Easily Control and Track Changes to Your Infrastructure There migh