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AWS CloudFormation Services That Build Every Environment the Same Way

For teams that still set up AWS resources by hand: we turn your infrastructure into AWS CloudFormation templates, so development, test and production match, every change is versioned and deployments take less time.

  • AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery validation
  • Wonder Finance: over 80% less time to deploy infrastructure
  • Memorizz: deployment time cut by over 60%

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AWS CloudFormation services help you manage AWS infrastructure as code: templates describe every resource, and AWS CloudFormation creates, updates and rolls back whole environments from them the same way each time. HabileLabs, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner that holds the AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery validation, designs modular templates, automates provisioning across development, test and production, and keeps templates under Git version control for engineering teams running on AWS.

Signs your AWS infrastructure needs to be code

Teams usually start on infrastructure as code when one of these keeps happening:

  • A manual change in the AWS console breaks a deployment
  • Each new environment is built by hand, one resource at a time
  • Development, test and production no longer match, so bugs show up only in production
  • Nobody can say who changed what in the infrastructure, or when
  • Scaling up for demand means another round of manual setup

Each of these comes from infrastructure that lives in the console and in people's heads. We write it down as CloudFormation templates your team can review, version and reuse.

What changes when your infrastructure is code

What our CloudFormation clients gain, and how templates deliver each.

Faster deployments

Pre-configured templates replace manual setup. Wonder Finance cut the time to deploy infrastructure by over 80% with modular AWS CloudFormation templates.

Environments that match

Development, test and production are built from the same templates, so configurations stay uniform and drift and deployment errors drop.

Fewer manual errors

Resources are created from reviewed code instead of console clicks, which removes a common source of failed deployments and misconfigured resources.

Every change on record

Templates live in Git, so each change has an author, a review and a version, and a bad change can be rolled back to a known state.

Less spend on unneeded resources

Templates create only the resources a workload needs and include its scaling settings, so capacity is not provisioned by hand and left running.

Quicker response to new needs

Reusable templates let you add an environment or a service by changing parameters rather than starting over. Memorizz cut deployment time by over 60% with modular templates.

What our AWS CloudFormation services include

From the first template to running and scaling the stacks it creates, delivered by one team.

Custom template design

Templates written for your infrastructure and split into modules, for example networking, compute and data, so each part can be reused and changed on its own.

Infrastructure automation

Provisioning and updates of your AWS resources run from templates, which takes the manual effort out of building and changing infrastructure.

Multi-environment support

One set of templates with parameters for development, test and production, so every environment is built from the same definition.

Version control integration

Templates kept in Git with reviewed changes, so you can track who changed what and roll back to an earlier version.

Scaling and performance

Templates designed to handle varying workloads, with scaling settings that let resources grow and shrink with demand instead of being resized by hand.

Testing and deployment support

Templates tested before they reach production, deployed in stages, and supported as your infrastructure grows and changes.

How a CloudFormation project with us runs

Four stages, from what you run today to infrastructure your team deploys from code.

1. Explore

We review your current AWS environment, how it was built and how your team deploys, and agree which parts to codify first.

2. Architect

We design the template structure, modules, parameters and environments, and how changes will be reviewed and versioned.

3. Implement

We write and test the templates, then deploy them in stages with minimal disruption to the systems already running.

4. Manage

Our cloud managed services team maintains and extends the templates as your infrastructure changes, and tunes them for performance and cost.

AWS CloudFormation services: common questions

AWS CloudFormation is the AWS service for infrastructure as code. You describe resources such as networks, servers, databases and permissions in a template written in JSON or YAML, and CloudFormation creates and updates them together as one unit, called a stack.

Infrastructure as code (IaC) means defining servers, networks and other cloud resources in files instead of setting them up by hand. The files can be reviewed, versioned and reused like application code, so every environment built from them comes out the same.

Custom template design, automated provisioning, support for multiple environments, Git-based version control, scaling configuration, and help with testing and deployment. We can build a full set of templates or start with the parts of your environment that change most often.

CloudFormation is the native AWS service for infrastructure as code: it is built for AWS resources, needs no extra tooling, and AWS tracks the state of each stack for you. Terraform, from HashiCorp, works across many cloud providers and keeps its own state file. If your infrastructure runs on AWS, CloudFormation needs nothing else to run.

It depends on how much is set up by hand today. Wonder Finance cut the time to deploy infrastructure by over 80% with modular CloudFormation templates, and Memorizz cut deployment time by over 60%. Neerja Software provisions its AWS infrastructure automatically from three CloudFormation stacks.

No. CloudFormation can bring many existing resources under a template without recreating them, and new parts can be added as separate stacks. We review what you run today and agree with you which parts to codify first.

Each environment is built from the same template with its own parameters, so configurations match. CloudFormation can also detect drift, which shows when someone has changed a resource outside the template, so it can be corrected before it causes a failed deployment.

HabileLabs is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and holds the AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery validation, awarded after an independent AWS audit of customer work. The team holds 50+ AWS certifications and has delivered CloudFormation work for Wonder Finance, Memorizz and Neerja Software.

See what your AWS infrastructure looks like as code

Tell us how you build and deploy on AWS today. An AWS-certified architect will come back with an approach, the parts to codify first and a rough plan.

  • AWS Partner, Advanced Tier Services
  • 9 AWS service delivery validations
  • 200+ AWS customer launches