CloudFormation Basics

The AWS CloudFormation service is essentially an AWS tool for dealing with the infrastructure as codeInfrastructure as Code (IaC) is a practice in DevOps where infrastructure provisioning and management are automated using code rather than through manual processes. This approach allows infrastructure to be treated in a similar manner as application code, meaning it can be versioned, reviewed, and tested. on the cloud. It is an automated AWS service that allows us to provision and manage a collection of resources, also called a stack, on the AWS Cloud using code. Almost all of the AWS resources can be created and managed on the cloud.