AWS CloudFormation Archives

Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 17, 2022March 19, 20220

AWS CloudFormation allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts. This gives you a single source of truth for your AWS and third-party resources. CloudFormation makes it easy to organize and deploy a collection of AWS resources and lets you describe any dependencies or pass in special parameters when the stack is configured.

WP CloudStack – a WordPress CloudFormation template for infrastructure on AWS cloud

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 15, 2022March 15, 20220

WP CloudStack is a CloudFormation template that spins up a fully configured WordPress infrastructure in minutes. WP CloudStack integrates WordPress with AWS services like Aurora, S3, CloudFront, and CloudWatch, so you can take full advantage of the cloud, regardless of your comfort level with Linux or AWS. It also uses FastCGI Cache and other optimizations to help you get the most out of your server.

How to create a Redshift stack with AWS CloudFormation

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 15, 2022March 15, 20220

Our AWS CloudFormation template creates an Amazon Redshift stack. Redshift is a data warehousing solution that allows you to run complex data queries on huge data sets within seconds (it’s pretty awesome). You can use it to generate reports and analyze customer data. This template will launch Redshift into your VPC subnet with S3 as the data source.

How to incorporate S3, EC2, and IAM in a CloudFormation template

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 15, 2022March 15, 20220

Our template example is that of SFTP Gateway, a product that makes it easy to transfer files via SFTP to Amazon S3. We’ll incorporate S3, EC2, IAM, Security Groups, and more to facilitate this file transfer. Here’s how you can use CloudFormation to have EC2, IAM, and S3 work together.

How AWS CloudFormation Works and How to create AWS VPC with it

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 15, 2022March 15, 20220

CloudFormation is a powerful Infrastructure as Code tool that can help automate and manage your AWS deployments. Here’s an in-depth walkthrough of how CloudFormation works and an analysis of a template that creates a VPC.

How to Create a VPC with EC2 Instance Using AWS CloudFormation

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 15, 2022March 15, 20220

AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code service, includes a template made up of nine sections. Although made up of nine sections, the Resources section is the only one required. For this project we will be using Mappings, Resources, and Outputs.

Building a VPC with CloudFormation – Part 2

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 13, 2022March 14, 20220

The Cloud Formation template we created in part one provide a simple, reusable way to create a simple VPC. However, this template is not as flexible as it can be. We would like to have a template that can build a VPC with a varying number of subnets to handle development vs test vs production usage. We would like something that could create public-only subnets if we needed to quickly create something for demo / POC purposes. nstead of creating separate templates for these cases, we can make our existing template more flexible by using Parameters, Conditions, Mappings, and Outputs.

Building a VPC with CloudFormation – Part 1

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 12, 2022March 14, 20220

This is the first part of series Building a VPC with CloudFormation. This article describes how you can use AWS CloudFormation to create and manage a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), complete with subnets, NATting, route tables, etc. The emphasis is use of CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code to build and manage resources in AWS, less about the issues of VPC design.

Hands-on AWS CloudFormation – Part 5. IAM users, groups and roles

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 12, 2022March 12, 20220

In the “Hands-on AWS CloudFormation” series we continue to create small templates by provisioning different types of AWS resources with AWS CloudFormation. For today’s lesson we will cover the IAM part of AWS using CloudFormation

Hands-on AWS CloudFormation – Part 4. Create VPC with private and public subnets

by FavTuts EditorialMarch 12, 2022March 12, 20220

Based on the knowledge from all previous parts of Hands-on AWS CloudFormation series let’s create something simple, essential and cool. This tutorial walks through how to create a fully functional custom VPC from scratch with a pair of public and private subnets spread across two AZs using AWS CloudFormation.

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