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Deploying a network stack with CloudFormation

Deploying a network stack with CloudFormation - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: VPC Networking: Designing a Software Defined Data Center on AWS

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Deploying a network stack with CloudFormation

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- [Instructor] When we're building infrastructure at AWS, the best thing we can do long term, once we've done our testing and we know what we want built, is to automate the procedure and one the tools that we can use that's built in to the AWS operating system is something called CloudFormation. CloudFormation is under Management and Governance. Let's open that tool. What we're going to do is create a stack. Now, the type of stack that you can create can be simple like just a network or it could be a network with NAT services or it could be your entire two or three-tier stack where everything gets built exactly the same way every time. We're going to use the file from the exercise files included in this class, but it's a starting point so you can see how it works and you want to understand that when you create a stack with CloudFormation, you're going to get charged for what is built. Long term though, you could pass a file to a developer and say this is the file that we use to…

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