Cloudformation Quiz
A company requires to provision test environments in a short duration. Also required is an ability to tear them down easily for cost optimization. How can this be achieved?
A. Use CloudFormation templates to provision the resources accordingly.
B. Use a custom script to create and tear down the resources.
C. Use IAM Policies for provisioning the resources and tearing them downaccordingly.
D. Use Auto Scaling groups to provision the resources on demand.
A. Use CloudFormation templates to provision the resources accordingly.
The Cost optimization Whitepaper from AWS mentions the following:
“AWS CloudFormation provides templates that you can use to create AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion. This can be useful for creating short-lived environments, such as test environments.”Also as per AWS cost optimization white paper, “You can leverage the AWS APIs and AWS CloudFormation to automatically provision and decommission entire environments as you need them. This approach is well suited for development or test environments that run only in defined business hours or periods of time.”But you can’t handle the test environments by using the Autoscaling group. You can provide the list of resources which requires to build a test environment and it’s pretty easy. For more information on the Whitepaper, please visit the following URL:
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Cost-Optimization-Pillar.pdf
