| The name of the base system (platform): | Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| Developers: | Amazon |
| Last Release Date: | February, 2011 |
| Technology: | Cloud Computing, IaaS - Infrastructure as service |
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) company provided new service AWS CloudFormation which allows to create stacks of the interconnected cloud services on in advance programmed templates in February, 2011. Need for this service arose because users of AWS often create the difficult configurations combining different services AWS which reproduction (for example, for the purpose of testing and development) turns into a difficult independent task.
In the official blog AWS the functionality of new service is described as follows: "The stack can include several entities of Amazon EC2, each of which will be accompanied by the corresponding groups of security (security groups), sections of EBS (Elastic Block Store) and the IP addresses of Elastic IP (if necessary). The stack also may contain means of balancing of loading (Load Balancers), group of automatic scaling (Auto Scaling), an entity of the RDS databases (Relational Database Service) with groups of security, a subject and subscription of SNS (Simple Notification Service), the notification of Amazon CloudWatch, a message queue of Amazon of SQS (Simple Queue Service) and the domains Amazon SimpleDB".
The CloudFormation templates are set in the form of the simple text files made in the JSON format. At the same time, support of CloudFormation is implemented also in the AWS Management Console web interface – the centralized control interface of AWS services.
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