AWS Infrastructure
Very Pleased to Announce Our New Certification: AWS CloudFormation Delivery
We are pleased to announce our certification in AWS CloudFormation. It is not just a certification, but a milestone in automation, in the search for efficient and consistent solutions in the cloud.
But why is it important to have obtained CloudFormation certification on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
AWS CloudFormation goes beyond being a certification; it is a step towards automation and reducing human error. It represents an essential tool that reinforces our ability to provide efficient and consistent solutions in the cloud, always pursuing efficiency in your business.
Why is it so crucial to incorporate AWS CloudFormation into our infrastructure? By using CloudFormation, we achieve:
Reduce Human Error:
AWS CloudFormation allows us to define and manage our infrastructure as code, minimizing the risks associated with human error. By implementing the infrastructure in this way, we eliminate guesswork and reduce the possibility of misconfigurations, leading to greater reliability and consistency in our systems.
Automate Deployments:
Deploying resources in the cloud becomes a fast and repeatable process. CloudFormation templates ensure that each resource is configured correctly from the start.
Manage Units and Relationships:
CloudFormation takes care of the correct sequence of resource creation and updating, avoiding dependency and ordering issues.
Upgrade with Confidence:
With CloudFormation’s automatic and controlled upgrades, we make changes to our infrastructure with confidence, following predefined procedures and without risk of unexpected outages.
Maintain Consistency:
CloudFormation ensures that our environments are consistent and standardized. This is essential for the efficient management of multiple resource stacks at different stages of development and production.
In short, our new AWS CloudFormation certification strengthens our ability to build, automate, deploy and manage cloud infrastructures more effectively. We are committed to operational excellence, and continuous improvement is part of our DNA.
What can you use the AWS CloudFormation tool for in your infrastructure? At BigCheese we use it for:
1. Managing the infrastructure with DevOps
We optimize the management of our infrastructure by implementing DevOps practices, where we automate processes for testing, deploying and provisioning infrastructure templates. We leverage continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automations to ensure efficient and reliable deployment of our infrastructure resources. By adopting these practices, we are improving our operational efficiency and accelerating the implementation of changes in our infrastructure, all while maintaining consistency and quality in our procedures.
2. We address the scalability of production stacks.
We focus on scaling production stacks smoothly, adjusting to diverse scenarios, from managing a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance to orchestrating complex applications across multiple regions. By enabling our infrastructure to scale, we are able to dynamically adapt to workload variations, ensuring ideal performance and availability. Whether for modest deployments or large distributed applications, AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to seamlessly scale our resources to meet changing business demands.
3. We adopt DevOps best practices
We took the opportunity to adopt best practices by defining critical elements such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets, AWS OpsWorks provisioning and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). With AWS CloudFormation, we facilitate easy implementation of the recommended guidelines, ensuring the creation of secure and well-structured VPC subnets. In addition, we simplify the provisioning process for services such as OpsWorks and ECS, enabling the seamless deployment and management of application stacks and containerized workloads in line with industry best practices.
4. Cross-regional and cross-account management
We simplify management across accounts and cross-regions using CloudFormation StackSets. With a single CloudFormation template, we are able to provision a uniform set of AWS resources across multiple accounts and regions. StackSets automates the provisioning, updating and disposal of stacks, ensuring safe and efficient operations regardless of location. We seamlessly run our large-scale infrastructure, saving time and energy by leveraging the power of CloudFormation StackSets for centralized resource management across multiple environments.
5. We manage security controls
With AWS CloudFormation, we ensure automated and secure provisioning and updating of our infrastructure. By eliminating manual steps and checks, we reduce the risk of errors. The rollback triggers in CloudFormation allow us to define CloudWatch alarms that we monitor during stack creation and update. If any alarm is triggered, CloudFormation will seamlessly revert the entire stack operation to a previously implemented state. Thus, we ensure the integrity and stability of our infrastructure in a controlled manner.
Learn more about our AWS CloudFormation services.
If you are interested in automating your infrastructure to avoid human errors and save time, contact us: https://bigcheese.com.uy/contact
