Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is a managed AWS service that allows you to define AWS services and resources using infrastructure as code, and is an alternative to using the AWS console, CLI, or various SDKs for deploying your AWS infrastructure. Although there is bit of a learning curve to master CloudFormation, once you have the basics of using CloudFormation under your belt, it represents an extremely powerful approach to deploying your AWS infrastructure, particularly once you start deploying complex environments. 

When using CloudFormation, you define one or more resources in a CloudFormation template, which is a convenient mechanism to group related resources in a single place. When you deploy your template, CloudFormation will create a stack that comprises the physical resources defined in your template. CloudFormation will deploy each resource...