AWS is a widely used cloud platform as a service (PaaS). However, when we have to deal with it, especially in the beginning, we can be overwhelmed with the number of options it offers. Creating an instance to host a simple Symfony application isn’t that hard as it seems to be. But when we need to expand it, or our project requires multiple different services, it will quickly outgrow our setup. When your application grows it tends to become a painful experience. Having to create and manage AMIs and load balancer configuration all by yourself is a challenge, to say the least. Fortunately, AWS provides us with the tool that can ease that pain – bringing automation and replicability to our stack. It is called CloudFormation. In this presentation, the speaker intends to: