Featured resource
pluralsight tech forecast
2025 Tech Forecast

Which technologies will dominate in 2025? And what skills do you need to keep up?

Check it out
Hamburger Icon
  • Course
    • Libraries: If you want this course, consider one of these libraries.
    • Cloud

AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices

CloudFormation is one of the most complex and useful tools in AWS. This course will teach you the best ways to organize, secure, and maintain your CloudFormation templates and stacks.

Ryan H. Lewis - Pluralsight course - AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices
by Ryan H. Lewis

What you'll learn

Working with CloudFormation can be confusing and complex, especially considering the depth and breadth of its impact in AWS. In this course, AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices, you’ll learn the secrets to using CloudFormation the best way. First, you’ll explore how to secure and organize your templates. Next, you’ll discover how to modularize your templates. Finally, you’ll learn how to efficiently update and maintain your stacks. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of CloudFormation needed to use CloudFormation with the most secure, maintainable, and efficient best practices.

Table of contents

About the author

Ryan H. Lewis - Pluralsight course - AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices
Ryan H. Lewis

Ryan Lewis is a Software Engineer who specializes in ambitious single page web applications. He teaches Java and JavaScript to aspiring web developers and technology professionals. In his free time, Ryan enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, and releasing underground Japanese music on his record label, MeatCube.

More Courses by Ryan