Understanding the benefits of IaC using Amazon CloudFormation

The approach of using code to describe and deploy your infrastructure components automatically is known as IaC. IaC is a fundamental component that enables you to automate infrastructure builds in the cloud.

Building your infrastructure using code greatly improves deployment processes because the code is executed by machines. This also means that any infrastructure that's deployed using code is less prone to human errors, which is inherent in manual deployments. Furthermore, you can create templates for repeat deployments and enable versioning for those templates. Often, you want to mimic the testing and production environments with each other so that you are assured that once your application has passed the testing phase, it can be easily deployed to production. Using templates that describe your infrastructure is the best way to avoid any discrepancies between those environments.

Amazon CloudFormation is a...