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Getting Started with AWS CloudFormation
In this section, you will use the AWS Management Console to create a stack from an example template from the AWS CloudFormation Sample Template Library and learn the basics of creating a template.
AWS CloudFormation makes deploying a set of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources as simple as submitting a template. A template is a simple text file that describes a stack, a collection of AWS resources you want to deploy together as a group. You use the template to define all the AWS resources you want in your stack. This can include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, Amazon Relational Database Service DB Instances, and other resources. For a list of resource types, see AWS Resource Types Reference.
The following video walks you through the stack creation example presented in the Get Started section.
