AWS: OpsWorks and cloudformation

Question

What is the difference between AWS OpsWorks and AWS CloudFormation?

Answer 1

CloudFormation	OpsWorks
Provides business with a way of creating a collection of AWS resources in a chronological order	Provides businesses managed instances of Chef & Puppet to automate server management on your EC2 instances or on-premises instances
CloudFormation concentrates mainly on what and how AWS resources are created	OpsWorks mainly works on the orchestration of Servers and managing the software configuration rather than looking into the architecture
Use CloudFormation when you must create multiple architectures of the same design	Use OpsWorks when you must manage the configuration of multiple servers which serves a similar purpose
Example: Replication of an available architecture	Example: Installing a web server in 100 instances and running a web page inside them

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