Preface

Released in 2011, AWS CloudFormation was the first response to Infrastructure as Code – an emerging approach to managing modern applications, systems, and servers.

In this book, you will learn how to apply infrastructure as code on AWS using CloudFormation in the most effective way.

By the end of this book, you will have learned about all of the internals of CloudFormation, how it is used in practice, related best practices, and various ways to extend its features using template macros and custom resources.

You will also learn about its alternative for serverless applications, the Serverless Application Model, and its possible future successor, Cloud Development Kit.