YugabyteDB is an easy-to-use distributed SQL database that can be deployed on various infrastructure platforms, including public cloud providers like AWS. The Yugabyte team has been working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and transitioning to online meetings with customers and partners. To ensure service availability, YugabyteDB's architecture is designed for resilience, scalability, and geo-distribution in dynamic environments such as VMs and containers. AWS CloudFormation templates can be used to automate YugabyteDB deployments, providing a consistent manner of deploying public cloud workloads. The templates store in plain-text YAML format and include settings such as replication factor, key name, VPC, and security group configuration. To deploy YugabyteDB using CloudFormation, users need an AWS account with permissions for creating EC2 instances and utilizing CloudFormation, and can follow the deployment steps outlined in the example.