AWS Cloud Formation allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts. It is the service provided by the AWS as IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service). You can create/update resource on the cloud platform via cloud formation templates. Cloud formation template uses JSON or YAML language for scripting. In simple words, this is the Infrastructure as code service by which you can provision a resource in the AWS cloud by writing the JSON or YAML code. Amazing right? Advantages: · Code as a service – Since it’s a code based we can store the codes in Repository and maintain the version for the Infrastructure as well. · Provision of resource within short time · You can share code templates with other developers whenever needed · Multi region deployment made easier