From the course: Introduction to AWS CloudFormation
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CloudFormation and infrastructure as code (IaC) - AWS CloudFormation Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to AWS CloudFormation
CloudFormation and infrastructure as code (IaC)
- [Instructor] The power of CloudFormation is the ability to define your infrastructure as code. So what does this mean? You already know how powerful cloud computing can be. Tasks that used to take days with physical hardware can now be done with just a few clicks in the AWS Console. That's an exciting concept. But if you've built a few resources yourself using the web console, maybe spinning up some EC2 instances or creating an S3 bucket, you know that every resource you create involves many individual steps and choices. You're entering text fields, you're making dropdown selections, and then after you've created one EC2 instance in the web console, creating the second one takes no fewer steps than the first one. And what if you don't want to just create two instances? What if you want to create four or 10 or 20? What if, along with those instances, you want to create a load balancer and set security groups, and define access roles? Not only is it a lot more work, it's error prone…
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