1 - AWS Automation and Application Support

Question 1

This is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services such as EC2, Lambda, and your on-premises servers. It makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.

Answer 1

CodeDeploy

Question 2

This gives you an easy way to provision and configure related AWS resources based on a template. The tool even offers a designer that permits you to build architectures in templated code from your “sketches” using the design tool.

Answer 2

CloudFormation

Question 3

This is a configuration management service that uses Chef or Puppet. These are automation platforms that treat server configurations as code. It uses Chef or Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments.

Answer 3

OpsWorks