2020-03-05T08:39:35Z

What is your primary use case for AWS CloudFormation?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty - PeerSpot reviewer
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2024-02-23T16:13:50Z
Feb 23, 2024

AWS CloudFormation is an IaC tool. We use it for the creation or modification of the entire environment.

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Vinamra Mittal - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-12-13T13:36:46Z
Dec 13, 2023

It serves as an automation framework for deploying infrastructure by using templates.

Bertin Fonge - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-10-06T12:01:31Z
Oct 6, 2023

I use AWS CloudFormation to create various types of resources like app servers, web servers, and S3 buckets. I know how to deploy these resources and understand how CloudFormation works, including best practices and different configuration options.

Atemnkeng Nkeze - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-09-15T11:20:50Z
Sep 15, 2023

It helps to automate the process of creating and managing AWS resources. It allows defining the infrastructure as code using templates, which describe the desired state of the infrastructure. This approach makes it easy to replicate environments, track changes, and perform repeatable deployments.

Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-09-11T15:14:13Z
Sep 11, 2023

I use AWS CloudFormation to automate my infrastructure, especially with DevOps engineering.

Kiran Rajanna - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-08-14T20:50:42Z
Aug 14, 2023

We use AWS CloudFormation to build resources.

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Marco Ismael González Rangel - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-05-04T21:25:24Z
May 4, 2023

The solution provides the most simplified way of managing resources.

Nilesh Banekar - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-04-13T15:01:09Z
Apr 13, 2023

We use AWS CloudFormation for any migration tasks, such as service catalog services, Amazon EC2 instances, and load balancers. The solution can be deployed on-premise, such as in data centers, and on the cloud, such as VPNs and gateways.

SK
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2023-01-05T20:46:50Z
Jan 5, 2023

We support multiple internal developers and deploy and create new S3 buckets for them. We create new users and groups and also create the SNSQS for them. We also support multiple services like creating the Lambda function and have a principle of maintaining the correct privilege for the user. So we manage the AWS service in our organization and deploy the AWS CloudFormation templates to create that kind of AWS service.

MW
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2023-01-02T19:37:56Z
Jan 2, 2023

I create cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation. It helps us a lot to manage or monitor the whole infrastructure.

Joaquin Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-12-01T16:09:34Z
Dec 1, 2022

We use CloudFormation for deploying solutions. It's tested manually and then we write a script for CloudFormation. We then copy all the configurations that are needed to automate the process of bringing it to the cloud.

Sunil Pichamuthu - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-07-24T07:24:51Z
Jul 24, 2022

AWS CloudFormation is being used for landing zone creation and DR purposes.

VamsiMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-04-08T13:58:18Z
Apr 8, 2022

We use this solution for application hosting and utilize the caching mechanisms.

OB
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2021-01-09T00:16:43Z
Jan 9, 2021

CloudFormation drives most of our AWS configuration. It is the configuration engine for our whole footprint. Literally, everything that we configure in AWS is configured in CloudFormation. We are using its latest version.

DD
Real User
2020-11-03T07:15:11Z
Nov 3, 2020

We use it for deploying all the Infrastructure: VPCs, EC2 instances, storage solutions, most managed services. Providing IAM configuration, providing group account configurations, role management within IAM. CloudFormation is THE Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution AWS recommends. Almost everything should, according to AWS, be automated and managed using CloudFormation - whenever possible. Within our organization, mostly the DevOps engineers use AWS CloudFormation — around 42 of them.

SA
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2020-03-16T06:56:22Z
Mar 16, 2020

We primarily use the solution for creating automated blueprints for deploying machines, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service.

AB
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2020-03-05T08:39:35Z
Mar 5, 2020

We are a computer consulting company and AWS CloudFormation is one of the solutions that we provide to our customers. CloudFormation is definitely an integral part of AWS Native solutions. It is used for setting up your environment, such as your DNS structure. If something happens in your current environment, such as a disaster, then you can bring up the environment in another region by using the CloudFormation template. Essentially, it is a tool that is used for automating cloud deployment.

AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to model and provision AWS and third party application resources in your cloud environment. AWS CloudFormation allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts. This gives you a single source of truth for your AWS and third party resources.
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