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Create and Manage Stacks with AWS CloudFormation Using the AWS Management Console

by Miguel Saavedra

Automating your infrastructure gives you repeatable and reusable templates for a variety of projects. This course will teach you the best practices for creating and managing stacks on the Cloudformation console.

What you'll learn

Manual processes become more and more difficult to perform as your infrastructure grows larger and more complex. In this course, Create and Manage Stacks with AWS CloudFormation Using the AWS Management Console, you’ll learn the basics and best practices of deploying a Cloudformation template in your AWS account through the Cloudformation console. First, you’ll explore what Cloudformation is and what value it brings. Next, you’ll discover an actual Cloudformation template and the purpose of each section. Finally, you’ll learn how to use the console to automatically deploy all the resources written in the template. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Cloudformation needed to automate your infrastructure as code.

About the author

Miguel Saavedra is an author, solutions architect, and Instructor specializing in AWS, big data, automation, and security. He has worked in several companies in the finance/fintech, education, and medical industries as well as some government projects. He has published and conducted research on both cloud and on-premise solutions for big data focusing on network analytics, and machine learning. He also designs highly available and automated CICD toolchains for high throughput microservices on AW... more

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