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Amazon introduces CloudFormation to simplify app usage
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 02 March 2011, 20:21 IST
Singapore: Amazon Web Services has launched CloudFormation to simplify the app deployment by the users . The new service prompts the user to describe their requirements through text like kind of server they want, network bandwidth and other additional services. Their requirements will be fulfilled automatically.
CloudFormation, a new service will give developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Users can simply describe the AWS resources they need to run their application in a simple text file called a template and AWS CloudFormation takes care of provisioning those resources in the right sequence and taking into account any dependencies between resources. Once provisioned, they can see all of the AWS resources you need to run your application in a single view.
To get started, AWS CloudFormation comes with ready-to-run sample templates to deploy some common open source applications that illustrate how easy it is to get the infrastructure for an application up and running quickly. These include WordPress (blog), Tracks (project tracking), Gollum (wiki) plus a wide range of sample templates to cut and paste from to create user's own templates. There's a good chance that a ready-made template exists to cover what customers want to do.
There is no additional charge for AWS CloudFormation. Users can pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your application. Customers can create a template and deploy its associated collection of resources (called a stack) via the AWS Management Console, CloudFormation command line tools. "You don't need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work. CloudFormation takes care of this for you," the announcement said.
