Benefits and Limitations of CloudFormation

Any software in the industry has its pros and cons. Analysts and architects must examine both factors while selecting the best service to satisfy their business needs.

AWS CloudFormation advantages

Let’s explore some of the advantages of using AWS CloudFormation:

Automation: A significant benefit of any IaC service is that it eliminates the manual work required in provisioning the hardware. By developing scripts that identify the list of all the AWS services to be provisioned, a software application can be deployed consistently and reliably across all the environments in an idempotent fashion. This automation saves the operations team countless hours and helps them refocus on ensuring the quality of the application.

Infrastructure audit: A software deployment failure often happens due to infrastructure misconfigurations. By checking in the AWS CloudFormation template in the source control repository, we can maintain ...