Introduction

Get an overview of the CloudFormation service in AWS and the learning objectives of this section.

CloudFormation is an AWS service that allows us to deal with the infrastructure as code, meaning we can define instructions in the form of code for creating and configuring different resources on the AWS Cloud. CloudFormation helps us to easily manage, secure, and scale our AWS cloud infrastructure with the help of code and automated scripts.

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In this section, we’ll explore the most important features of CloudFormation that we need to learn about:

Overview of CloudFormation features

Here’s the roadmap of what we’ll cover in this section:

  • Learn about the CloudFormation service and how it works.

  • Working with CloudFormation templates to provision stack and AWS resources.

  • Modifying CloudFormation stacks using change sets.

  • Using policies and scripts to manage CloudFormation stacks.

  • Creating and working with nested stacks in CloudFormation.

Read on to learn more about CloudFormation in this section.

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