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Infrastructure as Code

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Adopt

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All cloud infrastructure should be provisioned and maintained using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). To manage this we will use templating services provided by the cloud provider. For AWS we will use Cloudformation and for Azure resources, we will use ARM templates. If possible use policies to disable manual changes in cloud portals and force scripted modifications.

Adopt

All cloud infrastructure should be provisioned and maintained using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). To manage this we will use templating services provided by the cloud provider. For AWS we will use Cloudformation and for Azure resources, we will use ARM templates. If possible use policies to disable manual changes in cloud portals and force scripted modifications.