Simple guide for AWS cloud formation - part 1
WeDoIT is Cloud solutions & consulting company founded by cloud experts. As part of give back (or) knowledge sharing with community, our team has started creating these tutorials/cloud topic summaries. Check out cloud our computing spend optimization tool INVOKE to save cloud hosting costs by 50 to 80%. AWS CloudFormation is a service which helps you model and setup your AWS resources (in other words your AWS infrastructure). CloudFormation service comprises 2 steps: Template creation (or) modify existing template Stack creation (in other words run/Initiate template to create group of the resources) Template Creation Template is a file, in which you describe the resources you would like to create during the run/initiate template phase. Template file can be created in either JSON (or) YAML syntax. You can save these files with any extension, such as .json, .yaml, .template,or .txt. You can design CloudFormation template in AWS CloudFormation Designe