December 7, 2023

Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

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.

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

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.

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How to create a Redshift stack with AWS CloudFormation

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.

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Building a VPC with CloudFormation – Part 2

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.

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Building a VPC with CloudFormation – Part 1

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.

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

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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