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Mastering AWS CloudFormation - Second Edition
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Mastering AWS CloudFormation - Second Edition

by Karen Tovmasyan
November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
6h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1

  1. CreateStack is invoked; CloudFormation then calls service APIs to create stack resources.
  2. A CloudFormation service role is an IAM role that is assumed by CloudFormation before stack operations are performed. The policies attached to that role will then be used to perform stack operations.
  3. The API credentials that are attached to the IAM entity (user or role), when we run the CloudFormation stack operations.
  4. This information (physical resource ID and its metadata) is stored in CloudFormation’s state.
  5. If we try to create the same stack (that is, invoke the CreateStack API call), the call will fail with a 400 AlreadyExists error.
  6. If we run a stack update without any changes in a template or parameters, nothing will happen, ...
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