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Rule ID: CFM-003 Ensure that Amazon CloudFormation is used within your AWS account to automate your cloud infrastructure management and deployment. CloudFormation is the AWS service that promotes the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which practically means writing code using a descriptive language (JSON or YAML) to manage configurations and automate provisioning of AWS infrastructures in addition to deployments This rule can help you with the following compliance standards: • APRA • MAS For further details on compliance standards supported by Conformity, see This rule can help you work with the This rule resolution is part of the Conformity Operational excellence With AWS CloudFormation you will spend less time managing your cloud resources so you can have more time to focus on your applications. CloudFormation has several features and benefits that will allow you to build highly available, reliable, and scalable web infrastructures and automate them based on your application needs. The CloudFormation service benefits include: support for a wide range of AWS resources, stack customization via input parameters such as EC2/RDS instance types, EBS volumes size and port numbers, a declarative and flexible way to define your templates (simple JSON/YAML formatted text files), a user-friendly Drag-and-Drop interface that lets you create, visualize and edit your CloudFormation templates, the control over your infrastructure using a descriptive language (Infrastructure as C...

• AWS CloudFormation? • Esri CloudFormation templates • VPC • • ArcGIS Enterprise deployment • ArcGIS Server sites • ArcGIS Server site • • Amazon Machine Image You can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFormation templates provided by Esri to build various ArcGIS Enterprise architectures. In most cases, you will use a combination of CloudFormation templates to build a deployment. What is AWS CloudFormation? AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps define architectures on Amazon Web Services. It is an example of infrastructure as code, meaning you write code that can deploy a particular hardware infrastructure in a cloud environment. With CloudFormation, you use a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) template to define a stack of resources that work together in a predetermined way. CloudFormation ensures that you maintain a minimum number of machines in a site, allowing for recovery when one of the machines is unavailable. You can also use CloudFormation templates to launch and maintain a deployment rather than doing it manually, and you can set up identical architectures in different AWS accounts or regions. Esri CloudFormation templates Esri stores CloudFormation templates in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket, from which you can download them. Templates are specific to an ArcGIS release. You can also copy and modify these templates to fit your specific needs, or create your own templates to implement your deployment patterns. Use the Esri CloudFormation templat...

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing arm said it resolved an outage that had disrupted a swath of companies and organizations, including Southwest Airlines Co. and New York’s transit agency. Amazon Web Services are now “operating normally,” according to its status page on Tuesday evening. The company said it began investigating “increased error rates and latencies” in one of its data center clusters shortly after 3 p.m. New York time. The failures affected the company’s US-EAST-1 region, which is centered in northern Virginia and is Amazon’s most important data center hub.

Topics • • • • • • • In What is an AWS CloudFormation template? A template is a declaration of the AWS resources that make up a stack. The template is stored as a text file whose format complies with the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) or YAML standard. Because they're text files, you can create and edit them in any text editor and manage them in your source control system with the rest of your source code. For more information about the template formats, see In the template, you declare the AWS resources you want to create and configure. You declare an object as a name-value pair or a pairing of a name with a set of child objects enclosed. The syntax depends on the format you use. For more information, see the Resources: Hello Bucket! The Resources object contains a list of resource objects. A resource declaration contains the resource's attributes, which are themselves declared as child objects. A resource must have a Type attribute, which defines the kind of AWS resource you want to create. The Type attribute has a special format: Resources: HelloBucket: Type: 'AWS::S3::Bucket' If you use this template to create a stack, AWS CloudFormation will create an Amazon S3 bucket. Creating a bucket is simple, because CloudFormation can create a bucket with default settings. For other resources, such as an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group or EC2 instance, CloudFormation requires more information. Resource declarations use a Properties attribute to specify the information used to c...

Q: What is AWS CloudFormation? AWS CloudFormation is a service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, and provision and manage them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Q: What can developers do with AWS CloudFormation? Developers can deploy and update compute, database, and many other resources in a simple, declarative style that abstracts away the complexity of specific resource APIs. AWS CloudFormation is designed to allow resource lifecycles to be managed repeatably, predictable, and safely, while allowing for automatic rollbacks, automated state management, and management of resources across accounts and regions. Recent enhancements and options allow for multiple ways to create resources, including using AWS CDK for coding in higher-level languages, importing existing resources, detecting configuration drift, and a new Registry that makes it easier to create custom types that inherit many core CloudFormation benefits. Q: How is CloudFormation different from AWS Elastic Beanstalk? These services are designed to complement each other. AWS CloudFormation is a convenient provisioning mechanism for a broad range of AWS CloudFormation supports Elastic Beanstalk application environments as one of the AWS resource types. This allows you, for example, to create and manage an AWS Elastic Beanstalk–hosted application along with an RDS database to store the application data. Any other supported AWS resou...

Amazon CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your Amazon resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications that run in Amazon. You create a template that describes all the Amazon resources that you want (like Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances), and CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you. You don't need to individually create and configure Amazon resources and figure out what's dependent on what; CloudFormation handles that. The following scenarios demonstrate how CloudFormation can help. Simplify infrastructure management For a scalable web application that also includes a backend database, you might use an Auto Scaling group, an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer, and an Amazon Relational Database Service database instance. You might use each individual service to provision these resources and after you create the resources, you would have to configure them to work together. All these tasks can add complexity and time before you even get your application up and running. Instead, you can create a CloudFormation template or modify an existing one. A template describes all your resources and their properties. When you use that template to create a CloudFormation stack, CloudFormation provisions the Auto Scaling group, load balancer, and database for you. After the stack has been successfully created, your Amazon resources are up and ru...