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  1. Go to the CloudFormation StackSets console and click 'Create StackSet'

  2. Select 'Specify an Amazon S3 template URL', specify the URL of our cloudformation-stackset-skeleton.yaml, and click 'Next'

  3. Specify a name (say 'cross-account-skeleton'), keep the example parameters for now, and click 'Next'

  4. Specify one ore more of your organization's AWS account IDs as a comma separated list, select at least two 'Available regions' (say 'US East - N.Virginia' and 'EU West - Ireland') and click 'Add', then click 'Next'
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    The 'Deployment options' default to the most conservative 'one by one' deployment for starters - once confident that the template provisions correctly, more aggressive settings can speed up the process.

  5. Skip the 'Options' by clicking 'Next', review the settings and click 'Create'.
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    The resulting progress monitoring screen is similar to the regular CloudFormation one and also updated automatically, just not as quickly and slightly less intuitive, so a bit of patience is required here.

  6. (Optional) Assuming the stack set has been successfully created across multiple regions and accounts, select 'Manage StackSet' and play around by creating/deleting stack instances in particular regions or accounts, or by overriding parameters for selected stack instances.

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