Management & Governance: CloudFormation
Explore how CloudFormation enables you to define and manage AWS resources with YAML scripts, providing automation for setup and updates. Understand best practices and caveats to avoid common issues, helping you maintain reliable and clean cloud infrastructure.
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When using AWS, you almost always want to use some CloudFormation (or a similar tool). It lets you create and update the things you have in AWS without having to click around on the console or write fragile scripts. It takes a while to get the hang of it, but the time savings pay off the initial investment almost immediately. Even for development, the ability to tear down everything cleanly and recreate your AWS set up in one click is extremely valuable
Defining AWS resources with CloudFormation
With CloudFormation;
- You define your AWS resources as a YAML script (or JSON, but we find YAML to be much