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CloudFormation and CloudFormer

CloudFormation and CloudFormer - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Essential Training for Architects (2019)

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CloudFormation and CloudFormer

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- Another service offered by AWS to consider when architecting applications to take advantage of the cloud's elasticity is something called CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources. It allows for the definition of an entire application stack to exist as either a single or set of text-based template files. Version control systems can then be used to manage different versions of the application infrastructure. Here is a representation of a full application stack one might have on AWS. It's pretty clear that this is using a combination of many different AWS resources and solutions to architect the system. It's using ELB service to load balance traffic across two sets of EC2-based web server applications, which are communicating with an app-server tier deployed using Elastic Beanstalk. Also, this application is…

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