Hello, and welcome to the final lecture in this course, where I want to quickly summarize what we’ve covered.

In this course, we learned about different methods of deploying and operating programmatically in the AWS cloud, including APIs, SDKs, the AWS CLI, and infrastructure as code. We discussed how developers and application programmers can benefit from SDKs that integrate with their preferred development languages and platforms, encapsulating the underlying AWS API calls and automatically handling details like ensuring the proper authorization headers are sent along with each request.

The AWS CLI is useful for anyone looking to interact with AWS via a command-line shell and is ideal for enabling automation of routine tasks using scripts that can be integrated with things like CI/CD pipelines. We performed a fresh installation of the AWS CLI and saw how to configure the credentials it uses, along with some basic configuration parameters and operations.

Finally, we introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code and how it can be used to represent our infrastructure in a text-based template format. AWS CloudFormation allows you to use these templates to create stacks, which make it easy to create and delete resources in a consistent and repeatable manner.

That brings me to the end of this lecture, and to the end of this course. You should now have a greater understanding of all the options available outside the AWS console for operating programmatically with AWS and appreciate how these options can help to enhance the reliability, maintainability, and robustness of your cloud solution architectures, while also greatly reducing the likelihood of human error.

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