My AWS Rocks!

People have asked why I use CloudFormation (CFN) and not other tools such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). There are several reasons for this. Firstly, I'm not a developer. I come from an infrastructure background and although understand scripting and programming constructs it's not my expertise. This means no matter what tool I had to learn it was all relatively new to me. Secondly, when I started my Infrastructure as Code (IaC) journey Terraform had been out for less than a year. I was also working with AWS engineers who only dealt in CFN templates and the boot-camp I attended at re:invent 2015 all focused on CFN.

Why another blog about AWS? I took a while before deciding to create this blog and I am sure many people will be asking why create yet another AWS blog. I thought the same but looking at most the blogs out there many were focused on either complicated implementations or regurgitating AWS documentation. My hope is that this site and content will be useful for those looking to advance their understanding of AWS and improve their deployments.