Amazon Web Services
In this informative video, Michael Brugnoni, a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, demonstrates how to use the CloudFormation IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) generator to create templates for existing resources in AWS accounts. The IaC generator scans your account, allows you to select resources, and provides options to download CloudFormation templates, import resources into stacks, or migrate to CDK apps. This tool is particularly useful for new cloud customers, inherited accounts with manually created resources, or those who prefer working in the console environment. Michael walks through a practical demo, creating an EC2 instance and then using the IaC generator to scan for resources, select the instance, and generate a template. He also shows how to import the resources into a new CloudFormation stack, enabling easier management of previously manual resources.