If you are an AWS Cloud Engineer or involved in managing cloud resources within an organization, AWS Service Catalog is a great tool to learn.
AWS Service Catalog helps you manage AWS resources more efficiently, reduce operational overhead, enforce best practices and compliance, and ultimately accelerate your cloud adoption journey while maintaining control and governance.
Here are 10 reasons why learning AWS Service Catalog can be valuable:
1️⃣ Standardization and Governance
AWS Service Catalog helps enforce governance and compliance by ensuring that only approved and properly configured resources are available for use.
2️⃣ Consistency and Repeatability
Service Catalog ensures that teams can create environments with known configurations, reducing the chances of errors and increasing reliability.
3️⃣ Efficiency and Time Savings
Service Catalog enables you to create and share reusable cloud formations, AWS CloudFormation templates, and pre-configured applications. This will save time and effort in setting up new environments or deploying applications.
4️⃣ Self-Service Provisioning
Service Catalog empowers users to deploy resources on their own through a controlled self-service portal. This reduces the burden on central IT teams and enables faster development and innovation.
5️⃣ Cost Management
Service Catalog helps manage and control AWS spending by allowing you to set usage limits and budget constraints, preventing unexpected costs.
6️⃣ Flexibility and Customization
AWS Service Catalog allows you to create custom products tailored to your organization’s specific needs.
7️⃣ Lifecycle Management
Service Catalog facilitates the management of resources throughout their lifecycle. You can define how resources are updated, patched, or decommissioned, ensuring consistency and compliance.
8️⃣ Integration with DevOps (my favorite)
Service Catalog integrates well with DevOps practices, enabling you to build and deploy applications faster, consistently, and with higher quality.
9️⃣ Multi-Account and Multi-Region Deployment
Service Catalog supports deployment across multiple AWS accounts and regions, which is essential for organizations with complex cloud infrastructures.
Let’s not forget, 1️⃣0️⃣ AWS Organization Management
If your organization is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple accounts, Service Catalog can help streamline resource deployment across those accounts.
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