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Simple guide for AWS cloud formation - part 1

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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 Clo...

AWS Stop Vs Terminate Vs Reboot

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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 cost optimizer tool INVOKE to save cloud hosting costs by 50 to 80%. From the moment you launch an instance until termination, EC2 instances transitions between different states as show in above picture. The transitions are very clear and easier to understand from above picture, we are not going to discuss about state transitions here. What we are going to discuss is, how billing will get affected when you move EC2 instances between these states. Reboot:   Reboot an instance is equal to rebooting an operating system, instance remains on same host computer and maintains its public DNS name, private IP address, and any data on its instance store volumes. Reboot an instance doesn’t start a new instance billing hour. ...