Amazon Web Services intros CloudFormation

MUMBAI, INDIA: Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company, announced AWS CloudFormation, a simple way for developers and businesses to create  collections of related AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

Customers can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create their own templates to describe the AWS resources required to run their application. AWS CloudFormation then manages the complexity of provisioning those resources in the required order so developers don’t have to worry about sequencing or interdependencies.

Also Read: Amazon to offer on demand GPU supercomputing

“The idea for AWS CloudFormation came to us while we were building our own applications on top of AWS services. Rather than repeatedly building the same infrastructure and manually managing the dependencies between resources each time, our developer teams started creating templates to seamlessly handle the provisioning.  We found this to be so useful that we decided to offer it up to our customers,” said Adam Selipsky, vice president, Amazon Web Services.

Customers can create CloudFormation templates and deploy the associated resource stacks via the AWS Management Console, CloudFormation command line tools or APIs. AWS CloudFormation can be used across multiple AWS Availability Zones to configure a wide range of AWS resources including Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers, AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics.