AWS CloudFormation Primary Use Case

Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer Manager at Capgemini

AWS CloudFormation is an IaC tool. We use it for the creation or modification of the entire environment.

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Bireshwar Adhikary - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at ATOS

Our company uses the solution to provision AWS services for customers. 

Whenever a new environment comes into the picture, we make use cases. We determine private and public user instances, how many VPCs to create, how many security groups we need, and how many knuckles. We prepare templates and provision the environment based on documentation from the client side.

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Kiran Rajanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect and Cloud Security Consultant at Cgi Deutschland KG

We use AWS CloudFormation to build resources. 

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Bertin Fonge - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst and Developer at Bridge Labs

I use AWS CloudFormation to create various types of resources like app servers, web servers, and S3 buckets. I know how to deploy these resources and understand how CloudFormation works, including best practices and different configuration options.

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Ekule Mbeng - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at United Vision

Our primary use case for the solution is mapping. We have used AWS CloudFormation and its components. We have used the mapping block resources, like AMI, to a particular region. The mapping block enables us to map keys to a corresponding name value that we specify in a conditional parameter. We have also used the output block to import resources, such as a security group, from one CloudFormation template to another. In a template, the output section describes the output value we can use in other stacks or the value returned when we need to review my stack properties.

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Aryan Baghla - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Futuralis

We use AWS CloudFormation to automate our deployment processes within the AWS environment. It makes the process easier to manage.

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Vinamra Mittal - PeerSpot reviewer
Devops Engineer at IndusOs

It serves as an automation framework for deploying infrastructure by using templates.

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Atemnkeng Nkeze - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Engineer/Cloud Architect at Landmark Technologies

It helps to automate the process of creating and managing AWS resources. It allows defining the infrastructure as code using templates, which describe the desired state of the infrastructure. This approach makes it easy to replicate environments, track changes, and perform repeatable deployments.

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SK
Devops Professional at sunlife

We support multiple internal developers and deploy and create new S3 buckets for them. We create new users and groups and also create the SNSQS for them. We also support multiple services like creating the Lambda function and have a principle of maintaining the correct privilege for the user. So we manage the AWS service in our organization and deploy the AWS CloudFormation templates to create that kind of AWS service.

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DT
Banker at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

AWS CloudFormation is infrastructure as Code specific to AWS. It allows companies invested in AWS to codify their infrastructure, enabling faster deployment, tracking drift, and gaining visibility into the environment through the templates. This facilitates easy deployment in different regions.

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Nilesh Banekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use AWS CloudFormation for any migration tasks, such as service catalog services, Amazon EC2 instances, and load balancers.

The solution can be deployed on-premise, such as in data centers, and on the cloud, such as VPNs and gateways.

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Joaquin Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO - Founder / Principal Data Scientist / Principal AI Architect at Kanayma LLC

We use CloudFormation for deploying solutions. It's tested manually and then we write a script for CloudFormation. We then copy all the configurations that are needed to automate the process of bringing it to the cloud.

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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company

I use AWS CloudFormation to automate my infrastructure, especially with DevOps engineering.

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Marco Ismael González Rangel - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Teravision Technologies

The solution provides the most simplified way of managing resources.

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Sunil Pichamuthu - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Competency Manager at Sonata information Technology Limited

AWS CloudFormation is being used for landing zone creation and DR purposes.

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AtemnkengNkeze - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Cloud Engineer/Cloud Architect at Landmark Technologies

CloudFormation is infrastructure as code. For example, if you create an environment in an existing world, you can renew that code and implement the environment in another area.

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MW
Associate Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I create cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation. It helps us a lot to manage or monitor the whole infrastructure.

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VamsiMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at HUBER

We use this solution for application hosting and utilize the caching mechanisms. 

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DD
Principal with 51-200 employees

We use it for deploying all the Infrastructure: VPCs, EC2 instances, storage solutions, most managed services. Providing IAM configuration, providing group account configurations, role management within IAM.

CloudFormation is THE Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution AWS recommends.

Almost everything should, according to AWS, be automated and managed using CloudFormation - whenever possible. 

Within our organization, mostly the DevOps engineers use AWS CloudFormation — around 42 of them.

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Gaurav Ranjan - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Consultant at Tecnomic

Once we build a CloudFormation template, we use it regularly. We use the solution to build the backend infrastructure of Amazon Connect.

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AB
Infrastructure - Presales & Solution Consultant at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are a computer consulting company and AWS CloudFormation is one of the solutions that we provide to our customers.

CloudFormation is definitely an integral part of AWS Native solutions. It is used for setting up your environment, such as your DNS structure. If something happens in your current environment, such as a disaster, then you can bring up the environment in another region by using the CloudFormation template. Essentially, it is a tool that is used for automating cloud deployment.

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OB
Cloud Site Reliability Engineer and SecOps Lead at a wellness & fitness company with 51-200 employees

CloudFormation drives most of our AWS configuration. It is the configuration engine for our whole footprint. Literally, everything that we configure in AWS is configured in CloudFormation. We are using its latest version.

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SA
Multi-Cloud Consulting at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for creating automated blueprints for deploying machines, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service.

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