We join an elite group of only 35 companies to achieve AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery Partner status, proving our expertise at providing the best business solutions.
As a Consulting Partner, we design, develop and support even the most complex deployments on Amazon Web Services for IoT projects, and with AWS CloudFormation advancements we are delivering even more for our customers.
We’re delighted to have passed Amazon's highest level of certification and have proven our understanding across a wide variety of different projects. But what does this all mean?
What are the benefits of solutions with AWS CloudFormation?
AWS CloudFormation allows us to write code to model and provision AWS cloud services, in the same way code is written to create an application. AWS CloudFormation gives you control over your infrastructure, in exactly the same, simple, way that code does.
There is version control, so you can keep track of all changes made to your infrastructure and applications, and you can quickly and reliably create a replica of your infrastructure for development and testing. Deploying complex infrastructures becomes a one-click exercise.
AWS CloudFormation models your entire infrastructure and application resources with either a text file or programming languages and this provides a single source of truth for all your resources. This means you can standardise infrastructure components used across your organisation, enabling configuration compliance and faster troubleshooting.
AWS CloudFormation provisions your application resources in a safe, repeatable manner, allowing you to build and rebuild your infrastructure and applications, without having to perform manual actions or write custom scripts.
Codifying your infrastructure means you can author it with any code editor, check it into a version control system, and review the files with team members before deploying into production. The infrastructure can follow all the best practices an organisation has for traditional development, including automated testing and deployment via continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
AWS CloudFormation, as a single source of truth for your Amazon Web Services and third party resources, is the core of automating cloud infrastructure. Examples of third party resources are monitoring, team productivity, incident management, and version control tools. As an example, modular design of 'stacks' for networking allows an organisation to create blueprints to help enforce baseline security or compliance standards.
When your AWS architecture needs updating due to changes in business requirements, AWS CloudFormation allows us to reason about the updates in code, manages the dependency for any updates, additions or deletions, allows you to preview the changes, and can support automated rollback with support from Amazon CloudWatch. There are no manual steps or controls that can lead to errors. We can use Rollback Triggers to specify the CloudWatch alarm that AWS CloudFormation should monitor during the stack creation and update process. If any of the alarms are breached, AWS CloudFormation rolls back the entire stack operation to a previous deployed state.
Why were we awarded AWS CloudFormation Delivery Partner status?
To be validated as an AWS CloudFormation Delivery Partner we were reviewed by AWS Solution Architects to ensure we met a very strict set of criteria and we had to demonstrate best practice using case studies from our projects.
"Amazon says: "The AWS Service Delivery Program enables AWS customers to identify APN Consulting Partners with experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services. These APN Partners follow best practices for AWS services and have proven success delivering AWS services to customers."
"As a Professional Services business, achieving AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery status demonstrates how important we take the need to deploy and manage solutions we have built, migrated or re-architected for our current and future customers. It is an essential part of any AWS infrastructure project." - Jonathan Custance, Director and Co-Founder of Green Custard.
Look out for our next blog post where we will detail case studies of our AWS CloudFormation solutions designed for our customers.
How can we help your business?
We are always happy to hear about the problems you are facing or simply to be asked how to make your current systems work even better – we live to provide solutions.
We have an experienced and dedicated team at Green Custard who genuinely get excited about each and every challenge. We work with you to understand your business and what you want to achieve, then our talented team works together to create the best solution.
Find out more about infrastructure and DevOps at Green Custard or get in touch to book your free consultation.
