Question 1

What is AWS CloudFormation?

Accepted Answer

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work. CloudFormation takes care of this. After the AWS resources are deployed, users can modify and update them in a controlled and predictable way, in effect applying version control to AWS infrastructure as with software.

Question 2

What are AWS CloudFormation's top competitors?

Accepted Answer

HashiCorp Terraform are common alternatives for AWS CloudFormation.

Question 3

Who uses AWS CloudFormation?

Accepted Answer

The most common users of AWS CloudFormation are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).