Best Cloudformation
This isn't a tool, but a critical component for governance. The CloudFormation Registry allows organizations to store, share, and reuse vetted, best-practice infrastructure templates across different teams and accounts. For migrations, it ensures that every team building a target environment uses th...
While not a dedicated DR tool, CloudFormation StackSets is the gold standard for automating the *rebuild* phase of a disaster recovery plan. It allows you to deploy the exact same infrastructure stack across multiple AWS regions simultaneously or sequentially. By codifying your entire environment, y...
This advanced feature allows you to embed custom logic (often via Lambda) directly into your CloudFormation templates. For DR, this means you can write a resource type that, when deployed, executes a specific, complex DR actionlike triggering a specific database failover sequence or updating a compl...
