Chapter 2: Advanced Template Development

1. No. The Condition attribute of the resource may have only the Condition name string format.
2. Yes, it is possible to use Fn::Ref, Fn::GetAttr or other relevant intrinsic functions with conditional functions such as Fn::If.
3. UpdatePolicy is a resource attribute that handles the updates for resources such as the Auto Scaling group. UpdateReplacePolicy is used to manage the behavior of resources that are being replaced by CloudFormation during stack operations.
4. Retain, since we cannot afford to delete mission-critical databases by mistake in a template or stack operation.
5. Fn::ImportValue take the values of exported outputs of other stacks.
6. Yes, but not in the same AWS Region.
7. Yes, there is an AWS-specific parameter type called AWS::EC2::Image::Id.
8. AWS::NoValue can be referred to a null value. It is not usually used to set any value to a resource property and is mostly used in conjunction with conditional functions...