Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced AWS CloudFormation, a simple way for developers and businesses to create collections of related AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Customers can use AWS CloudFormation's sample templates or create their own templates to describe the AWS resources required to run their application. AWS CloudFormation then manages the complexity of provisioning those resources in the required order.
With AWS CloudFormation, customers describe 'what' resources are needed and AWS CloudFormation takes care of 'how' those resources are provisioned. In addition, customers can use AWS CloudFormation templates to create identical copies of the same AWS infrastructure stack that will run over and over as needed, removing the need for developers to manually recreate an application's stack for each deployment.
Customers can create CloudFormation templates and deploy the associated resource stacks via the AWS Management Console, CloudFormation command line tools or APIs. AWS CloudFormation can be used across multiple AWS Availability Zones to configure a wide range of AWS resources including Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers, AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics.
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