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CloudFormation overview

CloudFormation overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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CloudFormation overview

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- [Instructor] In this video, we will talk about AWS CloudFormation. At the end of the video, you will be able to understand how CloudFormation can help you build your cloud infrastructure, and explain key concepts like templates, stacks, and change sets. Let's start. So let's say you're just getting started with AWS and you want to build your web application infrastructure on us-east-1. To do that, you go to your AWS console to spin up an EC2 and RDS instance, and then later you decide, "Hey, I need to use S3 to store some metadata for my application." So you go ahead and provision an S3 bucket with the necessary configurations. Then after that, you thought of using Amazon Athena to perform analytics on your S3 bucket. And with the analytics going on, you need to delegate permissions to your data analytics team to access Athena, so you have to create new user accounts and design appropriate IAM permissions for…

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