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CloudFormation - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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CloudFormation

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- [Instructor] When Elastic Beanstalk created all these things for us, we saw that it was doing some things and we saw some output, but what did it really do? What it did is it used CloudFormation to create stacks based on templates. So let's go look at that. So I'm going to do a search for CloudFormation and I'm going to Command + Click on that and open it up in a new tab, and it creates stacks for you. So notice this one says AWSEB for Elastic Beanstalk. I'm going to click on that stack, and we can see some basic information about when it was created, and if it's terminated, and so forth. We can also see the various events that it performed when it was being created. Things like CloudWatch Alarms, and scaling up and down and load balancing, security, all these different things it did for us based off of the template. So let's go look at the template. I'm going to click on the template tab up here. I'm going to…

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