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Why infrastructure as code is so important - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services Lambda
Why infrastructure as code is so important
- [Instructor] Infrastructure as code is a fundamental practice when working with serverless applications in production. Let's take a moment to analyze why this is so important. Let's start by answering the question what is infrastructure as code? Infrastructure as code involves using high level programming language to control the infrastructure of IT systems. When your infrastructure can be treated as code, you can start applying the same techniques to the infrastructure that you apply to the code like testing, code reviews, automatic testing, and so on. When your infrastructure is in the coded form, you can replicate it many times, minimizing the errors. All these will improve the quality of your infrastructure. Infrastructure as code means that you are not going to the console of your cloud provider and typing and ticking boxes to create the infrastructure. It means that you are going to create scripts where…
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