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TERRAFORM-ASSOCIATE-004 · Question #65

If a DevOps team adopts AWS CloudFormation as their standardized method for provisioning public cloud resoruces, which of the following scenarios poses a challenge for this team?

The correct answer is B. The organization decides to expand into Azure wishes to deploy new infrastructure. AWS CloudFormation is an AWS-native IaC tool that can only provision and manage AWS resources. It has no capability to deploy infrastructure on other cloud providers like Microsoft Azure. If an organization expands into Azure, CloudFormation cannot be used to provision those…

Submitted by takeshi77· Apr 18, 2026Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Concepts

Question

If a DevOps team adopts AWS CloudFormation as their standardized method for provisioning public cloud resoruces, which of the following scenarios poses a challenge for this team?

Options

  • AThe team is asked to manage a new application stack built on AWS-native services
  • BThe organization decides to expand into Azure wishes to deploy new infrastructure
  • CThe team is asked to build a reusable code based that can deploy resources into any AWS region
  • DThe DevOps team is tasked with automating a manual, web console-based provisioning.

How the community answered

(39 responses)
  • A
    8% (3)
  • B
    87% (34)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

AWS CloudFormation is an AWS-native IaC tool that can only provision and manage AWS resources. It has no capability to deploy infrastructure on other cloud providers like Microsoft Azure. If an organization expands into Azure, CloudFormation cannot be used to provision those resources, forcing the team to adopt a different tool (such as Azure Resource Manager or a multi-cloud tool like Terraform). The other scenarios - deploying AWS-native apps, multi-region AWS, or automating manual provisioning - are all within CloudFormation's capabilities.

Topics

#IaC tool limitations#Cloud-agnostic IaC#Multi-cloud strategy#CloudFormation

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