SAP-C02 Q435 · Networking

Question

A company is running its solution on AWS in a manually created VPC. The company is using AWS CloudFormation to provision other parts of the infrastructure. According to a new requirement, the company must manage all infrastructure in an automatic way. What should the company do to meet this new requirement with the LEAST effort?

Accepted Answer

**Option C** is correct because CloudFormation natively supports **importing existing resources** into a new stack. Here's how it satisfies every requirement:

1. **Manage all infrastructure automatically** → CloudFormation is Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which provides automatic, repeatable management.
2. **Least effort** → The company is already using CloudFormation for other parts of its infrastructure. Using the same tool requires no new skills, no new tooling, and no additional setup.
3. **Import existing resources** → CloudFormation's "Import existing resources" feature (available from the console) allows you to bring manually created resources under CloudFormation management **without recreating them**.

**How the process works:**
- Step 1: Write a CloudFormation template that **ex

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