amazon web services - AWS CloudFormation vs. Web Console? -


i'm trying understand real-world usefulness of aws cloudformation. seems way of describing aws infrastructure json file, i'm struggling understand benefits serves (besides potentially "recording" infrastructure changes in vcs).

of use cloudformation's json files serve? benefits have on using aws web console , making changes manually?

cloudformation gives following benefits:

  • you version control infrastructure. have full record of changes made, , can go if goes wrong. alone makes worth using.

  • you have full , complete documentation of infrastructure. there no need remember did on console when, , how things fit - described right there in stack templates.

  • in case of disaster can recreate entire infrastructure single command, again without having remember how things set up.

  • you can test changes infrastructure deploying separate stacks, without touching production. instead of having permanent test , staging environments can create them automatically whenever need to.

  • developers can work on own, custom stacks while implementing changes, isolated changes made others, , production.

it good, , gives both more control, , more freedom experiment.


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