Deploying to Multiple Regions and Accounts Using StackSets
In this chapter, we are going to learn about StackSets—a part of CloudFormation that allows us to deploy stacks to different regions and accounts. StackSets are useful when it comes to managing big and enterprise-class infrastructure worldwide, whether you are hosting a software-as-a-service platform globally or are running distributed systems in AWS Cloud.
In this chapter, we will learn about StackSets and how to deploy them to multiple regions and accounts. By the end of this chapter, we will have learned how to prevent failures of multiple StackSet deployments using TAGs.
Before we dive into this, let's think about how we can perform stack operations in case we need to provision infrastructure to different accounts or regions.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- The old-fashioned way of multi-regional and multi-account infrastructure management
- Introducing StackSets
- Deploying...