From the course: AWS CloudFormation for Beginners
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Taxonomy: Nouns
- [Instructor] Let's discuss some common taxonomy used when it comes to cloud formation templates. First, the nouns. The first and most important one is the template. You will hear this word used quite a bit with regards to CloudFormation. A CloudFormation template is the actual file containing the infrastructure as code, specified in JSON or YAML format. It contains a description of the resources that the CloudFormation template is expected to create. Next, stacks, a stack is a set of all the resources that are created using a given CloudFormation template. We get a stack when we run a template. Thus, a stack is an instantiation of a template. Parameters are inputs that users specify when creating a stack from a template. Parameters allow our templates to be reused for creating multiple stacks with varying properties. For example, we can write a template of a web server where the easy to instance type is a parameter. This allows me to create multiple web servers with varying instance…
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