Day 1 of #30Days of Cloud

I decided to take on the 30 days of Cloud to learn more and document my learnings on internet.com :)

Exploring AWS CloudFormation: My First Challenge in the 30-Day Cloud Journey ☁️

Day 1: “Dive into a specific cloud service you’re less familiar with and explore its advanced features.”

I chose AWS CloudFormation.

Here’s what I already know:

AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that automates creating, updating, and deleting cloud infrastructure. This means you can replicate your entire setup across different environments, regions, and accounts with minimal effort. The benefits? Reduced errors, increased reliability, faster environment creation, and seamless automation. 🌟

Now, let’s check out CloudFormation’s advanced features:

Robust Security Models:

• Protects data in transit between services within your app’s architecture.

• Enforces security through encryption, tokenization, and access control.

• Uses version-controlled templates to implement the principle of least privilege.

• Ensures your data is secure, aligning with AWS’s well-architected framework.

Disaster Recovery Scenarios:

• Allows you to create backups of your infrastructure for quick recovery after outages or attacks.

• Supports high Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

• Like backup and restore, it recreates infrastructure as needed without managing it in between.

• Enhances reliability, another pillar of AWS’s well-architected framework.

Rollback Features:

• Enables quick reversal of undesired changes without deleting entire stacks.

• Restores software to its previous state, perfect for fixing bugs or restoring database integrity.

• Improves performance efficiency, a key part of AWS’s well-architected framework.

Stay tuned for day 2. This is going to be fun :)