Fwd: Announcing AWS CloudFormation
Antonio Anderson Souza
Antonio Anderson Souza
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From: Amazon Web Services <no-rep...@amazon.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:16 AM
Subject: Announcing AWS CloudFormation
To: "anton...@gmail.com" <anton...@gmail.com>
Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,
We're excited to introduce AWS CloudFormation, a new service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Customers can use AWS CloudFormation sample templates or create their own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run their application. CloudFormation takes care of provisioning your resources for you. AWS CloudFormation can be accessed via the AWS Management Console, CloudFormation command line tools or APIs. The service is available at no additional charge and customers pay only for the AWS resources required to run the application. To get started using AWS CloudFormation, visit http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/.
AWS CloudFormation templates can be used to repeatedly create identical copies of the same AWS infrastructure stack, removing the need for developers to manually recreate an applications stack for each deployment. With AWS CloudFormation, users describe "what" resources are needed and AWS CloudFormation takes care of "how" and in what order those resources are provisioned. For example, AWS CloudFormation templates concisely capture resource relationships, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances that must be associated with an Elastic Load Balancer, or an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that must be in the same Amazon EC2 Availability Zone.
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.
To learn more about AWS CloudFormation, visit the AWS CloudFormation detail page or the Getting Started Guide.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team
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