PAS-C01 Migration Practice Question
A company is migrating an SAP environment and wants to automate the provisioning of infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Which AWS service should they use to define and deploy AWS resources?
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AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation allows you to define infrastructure as code. OpsWorks is for configuration management. Elastic Beanstalk is for application deployment. CodeDeploy is for code deployment.
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AWS OpsWorks
Why it's wrong here
OpsWorks is for configuration management using Chef/Puppet.
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AWS CodeDeploy
Why it's wrong here
CodeDeploy automates code deployments to instances.
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AWS CloudFormation
Why this is correct
CloudFormation allows you to define and provision AWS infrastructure declaratively.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Why it's wrong here
Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS service for deploying applications.
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