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- A Cloud Guru

Getting Started with CloudFormation
CloudFormation is a powerful automation service within AWS. It can be used to create simple or complex sets of infrastructure any number of times. This hands-on lab provides a gentle introduction to CloudFormation, using it to create and update a number of S3 buckets. By the end of this hands-on lab, you will be comfortable using CloudFormation and can begin experimenting with your own templates.

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Challenge
Create a CloudFormation Stack
Using the information from the
createstack.json
file, create a CloudFormation stack named cfnlab.Raw File Location
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Challenge
Update the CloudFormation Stack to Add an S3 Bucket
Using the
updatestack1.json
file, update the CloudFormation stack.- Update the CloudFormation stack
cfnlab
using updatestack1.json to observe how resources are added and removed.
- Update the CloudFormation stack
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Challenge
Update the CloudFormation Stack to Rename the S3 Bucket
- In a text editor, open the updatestack2.json template file and modify the characters after
123
incatsareawesome123
. - Save the file.
- Update
cfnlab
again, replacing the current template with the modifiedupdatestack2.json
template.
- In a text editor, open the updatestack2.json template file and modify the characters after
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