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Learning AWS

You're reading from   Learning AWS Design, build, and deploy responsive applications using AWS Cloud components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281066
Length 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Amit Shah Amit Shah
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Aurobindo Sarkar Aurobindo Sarkar
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Preface 1. Cloud 101 – Understanding the Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Designing Cloud Applications 3. Introducing AWS Components 4. Designing for and Implementing Scalability 5. Designing for and Implementing High Availability 6. Designing for and Implementing Security 7. Deploying to Production and Going Live 8. Designing a Big Data Application 9. Implementing a Big Data Application 10. Deploying a Big Data System 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using CloudFormation templates

CloudFormation is used to define, provision, and manage a collection of related AWS resources. This collection is referred to as a CloudFormation stack. The stack’s template can be defined in YAML or JSON. Hence, the input to CloudFormation is a YAML file and the output is the provisioned AWS resources.

There are many sample CloudFormation templates available from AWS. You will probably never have to create a CloudFormation template from scratch. You can always download a sample and modify it to meet your requirements. These samples include templates for big data applications, including streaming applications, machine learning and deep learning applications, serverless applications, and many more.

Access the GitHub repository for AWS labs for sample CloudFormation templates at: https://github.com/awslabs.

In this section, we will use a sample...

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