Manage infrastructure & services with AWS CloudFormation

Manage infrastructure & services with AWS CloudFormation

Focus on features, not configuration

As companies progress on their cloud journey, provisioning and de-provisioning infrastructure should be a common practice for testing, releasing, and generating new features that are a key part of building products. Along with CI and CD approaches, Wizeline recommends using of orchestration tools such as AWS CloudFormation for provisioning infrastructures and having configuration management tools like AWS OpsWorks to install software packages inside virtualized instances.

AWS CloudFormation is an excellent way to define all the necessary resources in terms of infrastructure and application architecture. All configuration and provisioning must be done through a transparent, known, repeatable, auditable, and verifiable process.

Architectural advantages for Infrastructure as Code strategy

Architectural advantages for Infrastructure as Code strategy

+ Separation of concerns, which leads to more long-term maintainable solutions
+ Decoupling of services, which allows multiple teams to work together efficiently towards common goals
+ Clear contracts and abstractions, which allow teams to work independently with fewer communication issues
resulting in added efficiency.

Wizeline’s AWS CloudFormation best practices

Wizeline’s AWS CloudFormation best practices

+ Manage Infrastructure as Code via source control such as AWS CodeCommit and through a Code Review Process
+ Apply an automated testing strategy to validate and ensure quality to Infrastructure as Code
+ Abstraction and lockdown of important configuration
+ Deploy small changes rather than large batches that can be validated independently

Cut time spent on cloud configuration for eyewear startup

Cut time spent on cloud configuration for eyewear startup

Wizeline was the end-to-end product and engineering organization for 3D prescription glasses company Fitz Frames. AWS CloudFormation was leveraged to provision their infrastructure.

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Gained efficiencies for LATAM university

Gained efficiencies for LATAM university

Wizeline built a social platform for a large university in Latin America. The platform allows students to share their academic profiles and personal interests in addition to distributing important communications for professors, students and faculty. AWS CloudFormation was leveraged as an orchestration tool for this project.