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AWS CloudFormation Templates: Getting Started

As your cloud applications grow, maintaining your infrastructure becomes more complicated. AWS CloudFormation offers a way to reduce this complexity. This course will teach you how to describe your infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation templates.

James Millar - Pluralsight course - AWS CloudFormation Templates: Getting Started
by James Millar

What you'll learn

Codifying your infrastructure allows you to treat it as code, offering you a single source of truth and allowing you to automate the deployment of your infrastructure. In this course, AWS CloudFormation Templates: Getting Started, you’ll learn how to create CloudFormation templates. First, you’ll explore how to create resources. Next, you’ll discover how to use parameters and output. Finally, you’ll learn how to define mappings. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of CloudFormation templates needed to create templates for your own infrastructure.

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James Millar - Pluralsight course - AWS CloudFormation Templates: Getting Started
James Millar

James Millar is a freelance software developer based in Malmesbury, England. He has a passion for the cloud and has designed services that handle millions of transactions every day.

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