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Provisioning with AWS CloudFormation

Components

The provisioning of AWS resources with AWS CloudFormation involves several major components as follows:

  • Templatea blueprint for building your AWS resources, used to create, update or delete a CloudFormation stack (see below)
  • Stack – an instantiated collection of related AWS resources, as defined by the stack's  CloudFormation template (see above)

 

Alternative deployment workflows via CloudFormation

Workflow

The provisioning workflow is illustrated by the diagram in How Does AWS CloudFormation Work?:

This comprises the following activities:

  1. create a stack from the template – see the Create Stack action of the AWS CloudFormation Stack task
  2. (optional) update the stack (with or without changes to the template) – see the Update Stack action of the AWS CloudFormation Stack task

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)