AWS CloudFormation Documentation
AWS CloudFormation enables you to create and provision AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly. It helps you leverage AWS products such as Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon SNS, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling to build highly reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective applications in the cloud without worrying about creating and configuring the underlying AWS infrastructure. AWS CloudFormation enables you to use a template file to create and delete a collection of resources together as a single unit (a stack).
- Provides a conceptual overview of AWS CloudFormation and includes instructions on using the various features with the command line interface.
- Describes the AWS CloudFormation commands that are available in the AWS CLI.
- With CloudFormation Hooks, you can provide code that proactively inspects the configuration of your AWS resources before provisioning. If non-compliant resources are found, CloudFormation either fails the operation and prevents the resources from being provisioned, or emits a warning and allows the provisioning operation to continue.
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