AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 481

A company wants to manage its infrastructure as code in the AWS Cloud.

Which AWS service meets this requirement?

Answer options

• A. AWS CloudFormation
• B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• C. AWS Cloud9
• D. AWS CloudShell

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS CloudFormation is the dedicated service for defining, provisioning, and managing AWS infrastructure using declarative code templates. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an application deployment service, while AWS Cloud9 is an integrated development environment (IDE) and AWS CloudShell is a command-line interface, none of which serve as IaC tools.