AWS Automation with CloudFormation
AWS Infrastructure as Code
AWS CloudFormation and IaC Consulting
Turn hand-built AWS environments into versioned, repeatable code. Stratus10 designs, writes, and manages CloudFormation templates so every account, region, and environment is built the same way, every time.
AWS-native infrastructure as code
Change control and drift visibility
Consistent accounts, regions, and environments
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WHAT AWS CLOUDFORMATION DOES FOR YOUR TEAM
AWS CloudFormation lets you describe AWS resources such as networks, compute, databases, and IAM roles in a template, then provision them as a single unit called a stack. Because the template is code, your team can review it, version it, test it, and roll it out again in any account or region.
The hard part is building templates that stay maintainable as your environment grows, then establishing a delivery process that gives your team a better alternative to console changes. That is where Stratus10 comes in.
Consistency
Dev, staging, and production are built from the same template, making each environment easier to trust and troubleshoot.
Auditability
Each infrastructure change has a reviewed commit, author, and history. Drift detection brings attention to changes outside the template.
Recovery and scale
Use established templates to launch new environments, accounts, or regions and rebuild infrastructure from code when needed.
Our CloudFormation and infrastructure as code services
Template design and refactoring
Write new CloudFormation templates or clean up existing ones with modular nested stacks, parameters rather than hard-coded values, and naming and tagging standards your team can follow.
Codifying existing environments
Assess existing AWS resources for an adoption path, then bring eligible resources under CloudFormation management without a rebuild where AWS supports resource import.
Multi-account and multi-region rollout
Use CloudFormation StackSets to deploy baseline networking, security, and logging resources across designated accounts and regions from a shared template.
Drift detection and change control
Use drift detection and change sets to identify when live resources no longer match the template and review intended changes before production deployment.
CI/CD for infrastructure
Connect templates to a deployment pipeline with validation, policy checks, approvals, and staged rollouts so infrastructure changes move with the same discipline as application code.
Implementation standards
Establish source-control structure, parameters, tagging, deployment guardrails, and documentation so templates can be extended by the engineers who own the environment.
How an engagement works
Assess
Review the AWS environment and existing templates against CloudFormation best practices and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Codify
Write or refactor templates and bring appropriate existing resources under CloudFormation management.
Automate
Connect templates to a deployment pipeline with testing, policy checks, and approvals.
Hand off or support
Prepare your team to own the code or continue to support the infrastructure delivery workflow through managed DevOps.
Why Stratus10
Stratus10 is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner based in Southern California. We have built and managed infrastructure as code alongside cloud migration, DevOps automation, cost optimization, and security work for years.
Your templates are shaped by the same senior engineers who help clients run production AWS environments every day.
Automation that supports better architecture
“Working with Stratus10 enabled us to meet our compliance goals and significantly improve our AWS cloud environment. They created a highly scalable infrastructure with automated deployment capabilities, saving us time and resources. By reusing CloudFormation templates to deploy various container services, we can now efficiently create new environments and reliably test before pushing to production.”
Darrell Swope, CTO/COO, iTrac
CloudFormation or Terraform?
CloudFormation or Terraform?
Both are mature infrastructure as code tools. CloudFormation is AWS-native and supports new AWS services directly. Terraform is often considered when teams operate across multiple clouds or on-premises systems. The right choice follows the environment, team workflow, and long-term operating model, rather than a preference for a particular tool.
Common questions
In many cases, yes. CloudFormation resource import can bring eligible running resources under management without recreating them. We identify the applicable resource types, dependencies, and risks before work begins.
Either can fit. AWS CDK synthesizes CloudFormation, so it retains the AWS deployment and drift-management capabilities while giving developers a programming-language authoring experience.
Yes. We document the template structure and standards, then walk your engineers through the delivery process. If you prefer ongoing support for the DevOps tools and infrastructure delivery workflow, that can be scoped through managed DevOps.
CloudFormation has no additional charge for AWS resource types. You pay for the AWS resources it creates. Some third-party resource types and hooks have per-operation fees.
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