Configuration Management and IaC — AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

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Amazon Web Services — AWS::CloudFormation::Stack - AWS CloudFormation

If you have IAM resources, you can specify either capability. If you have IAM resources with custom names, you must specify CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM
Amazon Web Services — Working with CloudFormation templates - AWS CloudFormation

CloudFormation automatically monitors the specified repository and branch for template changes
Amazon Web Services — AWS CDK - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

When you synthesize your AWS CDK code, the result is a CloudFormation template.
Amazon Web Services — Choosing between State Manager and Maintenance Windows - AWS Systems Manager

You can use maximum concurrency to define how many concurrent nodes or resources should have the configuration applied. You can define a maximum error rate
Amazon Web Services — AWS Systems Manager State Manager - AWS Systems Manager

State Manager, a tool in AWS Systems Manager, is a secure and scalable configuration management service that automates the process of keeping your managed nodes
Amazon Web Services — Understanding how State Manager works - AWS Systems Manager

It is recommended that you define a custom IAM role so that you have full control of the permissions that State Manager has when taking
Amazon Web Services — AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise Now Support AWS CloudFormation - AWS

you can use AWS CloudFormation templates to create, update, and delete AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise servers in an
Amazon Web Services — Learn AWS CDK core concepts - AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2

Infrastructure created with the AWS CDK is eventually translated, or synthesized into AWS CloudFormation templates and deployed using the AWS CloudFormation service.
Amazon Web Services — Overview - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

You can configure multiple AWS Provider blocks to manage resources across different AWS accounts and Regions.
Amazon Web Services — Resources - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Checkov : Scans Terraform code to identify misconfigurations before deployment. TFLint : Identifies possible errors, deprecated syntax, and unused declarations.