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Hybrid Cloud for Developers
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Hybrid Cloud for Developers

by Manoj Hirway
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Amazon CloudFormation service

Until now, we have seen how we can create and use different AWS services such as EC2, S3, SQS, and so on using their respective APIs. Consider that you want to create a stack of different resources like a few EC2 instances and then create EBS volumes and attach them to the instances, then create S3 buckets, then create a database, and so on. AWS provides a way to create such a set of resources by allowing users to write a template that specifies the resources to be created. This template can be written using the JSON or YAML format and is called a CloudFormation template, and the Amazon service that parses and executes this template is called as the AWS CloudFormation service.

Thus, CloudFormation is a service ...

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