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Aaron Lima

Author: Aaron Lima

Aaron Lima is a Sr. Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services based in the New York area. Aaron is responsible for assisting customers with their AWS for Windows architectures and migrations. Aaron is an IT professionally with over two decades of experience, as a one-time customer he is passionate about helping and enabling customers take advantage of the AWS Cloud. Aaron's primary focus is on Management and Governance within AWS. Aaron loves talking about AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Config and automating infrastructure deployment and operations.

Using State Manager over cfn-init in CloudFormation and its benefits

Introduction If you have deployed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances via AWS CloudFormation, you most likely want to install software or configure the operating system of the instance. To accomplish this, you may have used cfn-init, one of the CloudFormation helper scripts available to AWS customers since February 2012. However, since that time AWS […]