AWS Provisioning Tools

AWS “provisioning” tools, by SDLC Phase left-to-right, by Level up-to-down.

Code	Build	Test	Deploy	Provision	Monitor
CodeCommit	CodePipeline		Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail
			OpsWorks
			CodeDeploy	CloudFormation	CloudWatch

From “High to Low” level:

Elastic Beanstalk

• Application Management Platform
• Paas-like, hides ec2 instances
• Equal to: create ELB and Autoscaling Group, Copy code to S3, start EC2 instance, download from S3
• Alternates: Heroku, EngineYard, Google App Engine, Force.com, Apache Stratos (retired 2017/Feb)

Lightsail

• Bundle EC2, storage, network, dns, static IP
• Extremely low cost
• Templates for: WordPress, Magento, LAMP, MEAN, Node.js

OpsWorks (Stacks, Chef, Puppet)

• “configuration management platform” – stack, layer, apps

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

• compiles into a CloudFormation template
• (because templates are too hard?)

AWS CloudFormation

• Used to provision a broad range of AWS resources
• Supports Elastic Beanstalk (example supported AWS resource type)
• Other supported types: ElasticCache, DynamoDB, Redshift, Elastic Load Balancing, OpsWorks, etc.
• Uses a template JSON
• Alternatives: Terraform

AWS EC2, AWS S3, etc.

• Lowest level building blocks