Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads
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C. CloudFormation can create AWS resources and manages them collectively in a stack. Templates are written in the CloudFormation language, not Python. CloudFormation can’t create resources outside of AWS. It also doesn’t prevent manual changes to resources in a stack.
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B, D. CloudFormation templates are written in the YAML or JSON format.
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A. Parameters let you input customizations when creating a CloudFormation stack without having to modify the underlying template. Parameters don’t prevent stack updates or unauthorized changes. A template can be used to create multiple stacks, regardless of whether it uses parameters.
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A, B. Resources CloudFormation creates are organized into stacks. When you update a stack, CloudFormation analyzes the relationships among resources in the stack and updates dependent resources as necessary. This does not, however, mean that any resource you create using CloudFormation will...