Introduction to AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications…
WP CloudStack – a WordPress CloudFormation template for infrastructure on AWS cloud
WP CloudStack is a CloudFormation template that spins up a fully configured WordPress infrastructure in minutes. WP CloudStack integrates WordPress with AWS services like Aurora, S3, CloudFront, and CloudWatch, so…
How to create a Redshift stack with AWS CloudFormation
Our AWS CloudFormation template creates an Amazon Redshift stack. Redshift is a data warehousing solution that allows you to run complex data queries on huge data sets within seconds (it’s…
How to incorporate S3, EC2, and IAM in a CloudFormation template
Our template example is that of SFTP Gateway, a product that makes it easy to transfer files via SFTP to Amazon S3. We’ll incorporate S3, EC2, IAM, Security Groups, and…
How AWS CloudFormation Works and How to create AWS VPC with it
CloudFormation is a powerful Infrastructure as Code tool that can help automate and manage your AWS deployments. Here’s an in-depth walkthrough of how CloudFormation works and an analysis of a…
How to Create a VPC with EC2 Instance Using AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code service, includes a template made up of nine sections. Although made up of nine sections, the Resources section is the only one required. For…
Building a VPC with CloudFormation – Part 2
The Cloud Formation template we created in part one provide a simple, reusable way to create a simple VPC. However, this template is not as flexible as it can be.…
Building a VPC with CloudFormation – Part 1
This is the first part of series Building a VPC with CloudFormation. This article describes how you can use AWS CloudFormation to create and manage a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC),…
Hands-on AWS CloudFormation – Part 5. IAM users, groups and roles
In the “Hands-on AWS CloudFormation” series we continue to create small templates by provisioning different types of AWS resources with AWS CloudFormation. For today’s lesson we will cover the IAM…
Hands-on AWS CloudFormation – Part 4. Create VPC with private and public subnets
Based on the knowledge from all previous parts of Hands-on AWS CloudFormation series let's create something simple, essential and cool. This tutorial walks through how to create a fully functional…