AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional SAP-C01 – Question326

You need to develop and run some new applications on AWS and you know that Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation can both help as a deployment mechanism for a broad range of AWS resources.
Which of the following is TRUE statements when describing the differences between Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation?

A. AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces two concepts: The template, a JSON or YAML-format, text- based file
B. Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS CloudFormation application environments as one of the AWS resource types.
C. Elastic Beanstalk automates and simplifies the task of repeatedly and predictably creating groups of related resources that power your applications. CloudFormation does not.
D. You can design and script custom resources in CloudFormation

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation: These services are designed to complement each other. AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides an environment to easily deploy and run applications in the cloud. It is integrated with developer tools and provides a one-stop experience for you to manage the lifecycle of your applications. AWS CloudFormation is a convenient provisioning mechanism for a broad range of AWS resources.
It supports the infrastructure needs of many different types of applications such as existing enterprise applications, legacy applications, applications built using a variety of AWS resources and container-based solutions (including those built using AWS Elastic Beanstalk).
AWS CloudFormation supports Elastic Beanstalk application environments as one of the AWS resource types. This allows you, for example, to create and manage an AWS Elastic Beanstalk- hosted application along with an RDS database to store the application data. In addition to RDS instances, any other supported AWS resource can be added to the group as well.
Reference:
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/faqs