AWS OpsWorks vs AWS Beanstalk vs AWS CloudFormation

Overview :
AWS lists out a wide range of services when it comes to supporting DevOps. Be it in terms of Integration, Delivery, Strategies, Infrastructure as a Code. OpsWorks falls under Config management service, CloudFormation helps to maintain Infrastructure as a code and AWS Beanstalk offers easy web deployment. Let’s understand each one of them.

AWS OpsWorks :

• The service is an alternative to AWS SSM.
• It provides AWS managed suite of Chef and Puppet.
• Helps to manage application configuration and operate features like compliance management.
• Chef — automates the task of configuration, deployment, and management of several servers.
• Puppet — It is yet another powerful tool for automation and application management across various servers.
• OpsWorks further offers three managed services, OpsWorks for Chef Automate, OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, and OpsWorks for Stacks.

AWS Beanstalk :

• This is a Platform as a Service focused to provide developers with web deployment solutions.
• It is more of a developer-centric service.
• Developer can focus on the application, AWS Beanstalk takes care of higher-level resources like EC2 servers, Auto Scaling groups, RDS database, Docker with AWS ECS.
• It requires minimum configuration and is one of the easiest ways to scale dynamic websites.

AWS Cloud Formation :

• AWS CloudFormation is a great service for an enterprise to attain operational excellence, which is one of the five pillars of AWS Well Architecture Framework.
• It is a low-level service that helps in modeling, version controlling of different AWS resources
• It’s a template-based service and hence focuses on maintains infrastructure as a code
• The template configured supports the modeling of resources, and the same resources can be easily deployed repeatedly across servers.
• AWS CLOUDFORMATION supports AWS BEANSTALK resources and AWS OPSWORKS stack as well.