Most of the recipes in this book have been managed and launched using CloudFormation, the AWS Infrastructure as Code service. CloudFormation has a convenient feature that allows you to directly plug in the resources from the template into the Simple Monthly Calculator.
Estimating CloudFormation template costs
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need an existing CloudFormation template. The template does not need to be deployed as a stack; just the file is required.
In this example, we will use the template from Chapter 6, Managing AWS Databases: 06-01-RDS.yaml.
