Benefits of IaC

IaC comes with a lot of benefits in every phase of software development and also after the product is implemented in production. This removes a lot of bottlenecks in real-world problems around the installation and management of software products and other open-source tools used in the background.

Some of the key benefits are listed here.

Rapid Deployments and Tool Integration

As discussed earlier in the chapter, IaC practices, along with the cloud migration strategy, help organizations reduce their initial capital expenses and focus more on the applications that will be deployed in the cloud.

In this way, organizations can get started with application development with very minimal costs and take full advantage of the pay-as-you-go model with the cloud. Cloud service providers always strive to provide the best customer experience and at the same time enhance their products with value-added services.

For example, AWS provides managed services such as Amazon...