What is AWS CloudFormation?

This section of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional course introduces the AWS management and governance services relevant to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam. These services are used to help you audit, monitor, and evaluate your AWS infrastructure and resources and form a core component of resilient and performant architectures. 

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Learning Objectives

• Understand the benefits of using AWS CloudWatch and audit logs to manage your infrastructure
• Learn how to record and track API requests using AWS CloudTrail
• Learn what AWS Config is and its components
• Manage multi-account environments with AWS Organizations and Control Tower
• Learn how to carry out logging with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFront, and VPC Flow Logs
• Learn about AWS data transformation tools such as AWS Glue and data visualization services like Amazon Athena and QuickSight
• Learn how AWS CloudFormation can be used to represent your infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Understand SLAs in AWS