CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk

Question 1

CloudFormation

• Free but you pay for the AWS resources that this service creates
• Fn::GetAtt - values that you can use to return result for an AWS created resource or used to display in output
• Rollback everything on error by default

Answer 1

CloudFormation

• Free but you pay for the AWS resources that this service creates
• Fn::GetAtt - values that you can use to return result for an AWS created resource or used to display in output
• Rollback everything on error by default

Question 2

• CloudFormation Template is an architectural diagram, in JSON format, and Stack is the end result of that diagram, which is actually provisioned
• template can be used to set up the resources consistently and repeatedly over and over across multiple regions and consists of
  
  • List of AWS resources and their configuration values ( only required item for template to execute)
  • An optional template file format version number
  • An optional list of template parameters (input values supplied at stack creation time)
  • An optional list of output values like public IP address using the Fn::GetAtt function
  • An optional list of data tables used to lookup static configuration values for e.g., AMI names per AZ

Question 3

Elastic Beanstalk

• Free but you pay for the AWS resources that this service creates
• Predefined Configurations: IIS, Node.JS, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tomcat, Java, Go, Docker
• Preconfigured Docker: Glassfish, Python or Generic Docker