AWS CloudFormation templates | Infrastructure & Automation

Customize an AWS Quick Start for your use case

Learn learn how to customize the code in an AWS Quick Start to fit your use case.

Use Python to manage third-party resources in AWS CloudFormation

Use Python and AWS CloudFormation to create, register, and use a resource type.

8 best practices when automating your deployments with AWS CloudFormation

Learn how to save time, effort, and frustration when automating your workload deployments using AWS CloudFormation.

Best practices for using Amazon S3 endpoints with AWS CloudFormation

Learn why you want to shift from path-style to virtual-hosted-style S3 endpoints in your AWS CloudFormation templates.

Building a CI/CD pipeline for Hugo websites

Learn how to use a code pipeline to automate the static file generation and content publishing process of a Hugo website.

Run code before terminating an EC2 Auto Scaling instance

Learn how to create an AWS CloudFormation template that runs code prior to terminating an EC2 Auto Scaling instance.

AWS Quick Start best practices for broad customer impact

See best practices that you can apply in developing AWS Quick Starts to help gain broad customer reach and impact.

Conditionally launch AWS CloudFormation resources based on user input

Here are two patterns that you can add to AWS CloudFormation to customize automated deployments based on values provided during the launch. The first pattern is for designing nested stacks that are optional. The second pattern allows you to change template URLs based on the current scenario.