How to Manage and Automate AWS with Ansible

Ioannis Moustakis
Spacelift
Published in
11 min readJun 20, 2024

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Ansible is an open-source and battle-tested automation tool with simplicity and powerful capabilities. These qualities make it an excellent choice for configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and application deployment use cases.

Leveraging Ansible to manage and provision cloud infrastructure on AWS enables operations to streamline and automate various tasks. It enables cross-platform automation and orchestration at scale and is considered an excellent option for configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and application deployment use cases.

What is Ansible used for in AWS?

Ansible is used in AWS for various purposes, including configuration management, CI/CD and application deployment, and cloud provisioning and management. It also supports network automation, security and compliance automation, disaster recovery automation, and complex workflow automation, making it a versatile tool for automating and streamlining various AWS operations.

Ansible AWS modules

Ansible offers a wide range of modules specifically designed to simplify the automation and management of AWS services. These modules enable you to efficiently handle tasks such as instance provisioning, security group configuration, and resource…

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Ioannis Moustakis
Spacelift

Sr Solutions Architect at AWS. Talks about Cloud Architecture, DevOps & SRE. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioannis-moustakis/ Opinions expressed are solely my own