Getting started with Amazon CloudFormation - Amazon CloudFormation
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Getting started with Amazon CloudFormation

Because you can use Amazon CloudFormation to launch many different types of resources, the getting started walkthrough will touch on just a few simple concepts to help you get an idea of how to use Amazon CloudFormation.

In this section, you will use the Amazon Web Services Management Console to create a stack from an example template from the Amazon CloudFormation sample template library and learn the basics of creating a template.

In the following walkthrough, we'll use a sample template to launch, update, and delete a stack. After you learn the fundamentals, you can learn more about creating more complex templates and stacks.

Amazon CloudFormation makes deploying a set of Amazon Web Services (Amazon) resources as simple as submitting a template. A template is a text file that describes a stack, a collection of Amazon resources you want to deploy together as a group. You use the template to define all the Amazon resources you want in your stack. This can include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, Amazon Relational Database Service DB Instances, and other resources. For a list of resource types, see Amazon resource and property types reference.

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