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Configuration Management and IaC
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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
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Amazon Web Services — Working with CloudFormation templates - AWS CloudFormation
CloudFormation automatically monitors the specified repository and branch for template changes
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Amazon Web Services — AWS CDK - AWS Prescriptive Guidance
When you synthesize your AWS CDK code, the result is a CloudFormation template.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Amazon Web Services — Overview - AWS Prescriptive Guidance
You can configure multiple AWS Provider blocks to manage resources across different AWS accounts and Regions.
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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.