AWS Infrastructure Deployment and Management

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CloudFormation (IaaC):

Definition: Declarative outline of AWS infrastructure via templates, ensuring repeatability across regions and accounts.
Stack: Aggregation of AWS resources managed collectively from CloudFormation templates in YAML or JSON
Benefits:
- IaaC: Enables control and auditing of changes through code.
- Cost Management: Utilizes tagging for cost estimation, along with automated cost-saving tactics.
- Productivity: Facilitates seamless infrastructure creation, destruction, and recreation using pre-existing templates.
Example: Template-based creation of resources like security groups, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and load balancers.

AWS CDK:

Definition: Defines cloud infrastructure using common programming languages, compiled into CloudFormation templates.
Use Cases: Ideal for Lambda functions, Docker containers in ECS/EKS, enabling unified deployment of infrastructure and application runtime.

Elastic Beanstalk (PaaS):

Overview: Developer-centric platform for AWS application deployment, monitoring and performance Management.
Features:
- Ease of Use: Simplified interface for deploying applications with known architectures.
- Managed Service: Handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring.
- Architecture Models: Supports single instance deployment, LB + ASG, ASG only, with Docker configurations.

Developer Tools

Code Store:

AWS CodeCommit: Hosts Git-based repositories for version-controlled code collaboration.
AWS CodeArtifact: Provides secure, scalable artifact management for software development, supporting common dependency management tools.
Parameter Store: Offers secure storage for configuration and secrets, providing version tracking, encryption, and IAM permissions.

Developer UI

AWS Cloud9: Cloud-based IDE for writing, running, and debugging code, supporting real-time collaboration.
AWS CodeStar: Unified UI for managing software development activities, setting up CI/CD pipelines, and code editing in the cloud.

Manage Cloud Systems UI

AWS Systems Manager (SSM): Hybrid service aiding in managing cloud systems by running commands at scale, offering patching automation, command execution, and parameter storage.
SSM Session Manager: Facilitates secure shell access to cloud servers without SSH or bastion hosts, supporting session logging.

Deployment Automation

AWS CodeDeploy: Hybrid service automating application deployment and upgrades onto servers.
AWS CodeBuild: Serverless Cloud-based service for compiling source code, running tests, and producing deployable artifacts.
AWS CodePipeline: Orchestrates CI/CD pipelines from code to deployment, supporting various AWS services and third-party integrations.

Summary

CloudFormation (IaaC): Templates for AWS resources using Stack which is a collection of AWS resources managed from CloudFormation templates in YAML or JSON.

AWS CDK: Infrastructure defined using programming languages, compiled into CloudFormation templates.

Elastic Beanstalk (PaaS): Developer-centric platform for AWS application deployment, health monitoring and performance Management. Support for select programming languages and Docker. Automated deployment with predefined architectures like ALB+EC2+RDS.

Developer Tools:

Code Store:
- AWS CodeCommit for storing code with versions in private git repo,
- AWS CodeArtifact for dependency storage management,
- Parameter Store for secure configuration storage.
Developer UI:
- AWS Cloud9 IDE for collaborative coding
- AWS CodeStar for managing CI/CD activities.
Manage Cloud Systems UI: (hybrid)
- AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for running commands at scale across all your servers
- SSM Session Manager for secure shell access.
Deployment Automation:
- AWS CodeDeploy (hybrid) for application deployment,
- AWS CodeBuild for serverless code compilation,
- AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD pipeline orchestration.