Walkthroughs - Amazon CloudFormation
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Walkthroughs

Templates are JSON- or YAML-formatted text files that describe the Amazon resources that you want to provision or update in your Amazon CloudFormation stacks. To create templates, you can use Amazon CloudFormation Designer or a text editor.

The following procedures help you create sample Amazon CloudFormation templates using Amazon CloudFormation Designer and plain text.