Cloudformation

What are we going to try to build with CloudFormation

• Amazon EC2
• AWS Identity Access management Role (for EC2 security group I quess)
• SNS (Condition: Use different emails based on Test or Prod)

Involves

• Mappings
• Parameter
• Pseduo Parameters
• Intrinsic Functions
• Conditions
• Output
• Resources

Steps

Pick a resource and pick a template for it

Start with an EC2 template

• Search from "Sample cloudformation template" provided by official AWS services
• View in Designer is a helpful tool and you can export in json/yaml