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AWS CloudFormation

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What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that allows you to define and provision AWS infrastructure using a template. These templates can be written in YAML or JSON, and they describe the AWS resources you want to create and configure. CloudFormation automates the process of creating, updating, and deleting these resources in a safe and repeatable way. It is commonly used for deploying applications, creating environments for testing, and managing infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts and regions.

What other technologies are related to AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation Competitor Technologies

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that competes with CloudFormation for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudFormation in 16% (79.4k) of relevant job posts
Ansible can be used for infrastructure automation and configuration management, competing with CloudFormation.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudFormation in 9% (37.4k) of relevant job posts
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform. While EKS uses CloudFormation, Kubernetes itself provides infrastructure orchestration.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudFormation in 5% (49k) of relevant job posts
Chef is a configuration management tool that provides infrastructure automation capabilities, thus competing with CloudFormation.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudFormation in 16% (15.1k) of relevant job posts
Puppet is a configuration management tool used for infrastructure automation, and it directly competes with CloudFormation.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudFormation in 14% (14.3k) of relevant job posts

AWS CloudFormation Complementary Technologies

CloudWatch provides monitoring and observability for AWS resources deployed by CloudFormation.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudFormation in 29% (20.8k) of relevant job posts
Lambda functions can be provisioned and managed using CloudFormation templates.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudFormation in 17% (32.3k) of relevant job posts
EC2 instances are a resource that can be provisioned and managed using CloudFormation.
mentioned alongside AWS CloudFormation in 18% (28.1k) of relevant job posts

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