AWS Deployment and Infrastructure Management Services Flashcards
What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
IaC allows you to write a script to provision AWS resources. The benefit is that you provision resources in a reproducible manner that saves time.
What is CloudFormation?
CloudFormation allows you to provision AWS resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Provides a repeatable process for provisioning resources
- Works with most AWS services
- Create templates for the resources you want to provision
What is CloudFormation real world usecase?
You can use CloudFormation to automate the creation of EC2 instances in your AWS account.
What is Elastic Beanstalk?
Elastic Beanstalk allows you to deploy your web applications and web services to AWS.
- Orchestration service that provisions resources
- Automatically handles the deployment
- Monitors application health via a health dashboard
What is Elastic Beanstalk real world usecase?
After you upload your Java code, Elastic Beanstalk deploys it and handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, and Auto Scaling. Elastic Beanstalk even monitors the health of your application.
What is OpsWorks?
OpsWorks allows you to use Chef or Puppet to automate the configuration of your servers and deploy code.
- Deploy code and manage applications
- Manage on-premises servers or EC2 instances in AWS Cloud
- Works with Chef and Puppet automation platforms
What is OpsWorks real world usecase?
OpsWorks allows you to define software installation scripts and automate configuration for your application servers.
