AWS CloudFormation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

90 Days of Cloud Challenge: Day 8

By Sandip Das · · 7 min read

AWS CloudFormation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
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Learning AWS CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) helps us automate resource provisioning, ensuring consistency, scalability, and faster deployments.

It also reduces manual errors, improves collaboration through version-controlled templates, and strengthens overall cloud infrastructure reliability.

📚 Key Learnings

  • Understand what Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is and why it’s important.
  • Learn how CloudFormation provisions AWS resources using templates.
  • Explore CloudFormation templates (YAML/JSON) structure: Parameters, Resources, Outputs.
  • Understand stacks and stack updates.
  • Compare CloudFormation with other IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi).

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Topics: AWS CloudFormation, IaC, Community, AWS, 90 Days of Cloud