Stacks
A stack is deployed from a template and represents a set of resources that are connected and belong to an application. A stack can also represent a part of an application if deployment is performed in layers. The ability to use CloudFormation to deploy our environment in separate stacks or in multiple stages can be very beneficial when we need a unified way of deploying resources for multiple applications, or when we need to deploy our application with the highest degree of agility.
For example, when you design your application, you can specify separate tiers of architecture and these tiers can be deployed with separate templates. This is good practice and can achieve most agility for your deployment. This approach is demonstrated ...
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