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AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices

CloudFormation is one of the most complex and useful tools in AWS. This course will teach you the best ways to organize, secure, and maintain your CloudFormation templates and stacks.

Beginner
1h 3m
(24)

Created by Ryan H. Lewis

Last Updated Jun 19, 2020

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AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices

CloudFormation is one of the most complex and useful tools in AWS. This course will teach you the best ways to organize, secure, and maintain your CloudFormation templates and stacks.

Beginner
1h 3m
(24)

Created by Ryan H. Lewis

Last Updated Jun 19, 2020

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Working with CloudFormation can be confusing and complex, especially considering the depth and breadth of its impact in AWS. In this course, AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices, you’ll learn the secrets to using CloudFormation the best way. First, you’ll explore how to secure and organize your templates. Next, you’ll discover how to modularize your templates. Finally, you’ll learn how to efficiently update and maintain your stacks. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of CloudFormation needed to use CloudFormation with the most secure, maintainable, and efficient best practices.

AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices
Beginner
1h 3m
(24)
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Ryan H. Lewis
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Ryan Lewis is a Software Engineer who specializes in ambitious single page web applications. He teaches Java and JavaScript to aspiring web developers and technology professionals. In his free time, Ryan enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, and releasing underground Japanese music on his record label, MeatCube.

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