Summary and Quiz
Get a refresher on what you’ve learned in the CloudFormation chapter, and take a short quiz to validate your knowledge.
In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned in this section and test our knowledge of the AWS CloudFormation service with a short quiz.
Summary
Here’s a summary of the key takeaways from this section:
AWS CloudFormation service: The AWS CloudFormation manages the AWS cloud infrastructure as code. CloudFormation allows us to provision and manage AWS cloud resources as a collection, also known as a stack.
Benefits of CloudFormation: AWS CloudFormation offers the following benefits:
Automation: We can automate the management of our AWS cloud infrastructure, reducing any manual overhead.
Easier resource management: We can leverage the AWS CloudFormation service to improve the scalability and consistency of our AWS cloud infrastructure.
Reusability across regions: We can reuse CloudFormation templates for deployment in different AWS regions and AZs.
Tracking changes: We can easily track modifications to our cloud infrastructure.
Cost management: We can tag resources in CloudFormation stacks for easier cost tracking.
Cost considerations: While CloudFormation itself is free, users can still incur costs for the AWS resources provisioned through CloudFormation. AWS follows the pay-as-you-go model without upfront commitments.