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Introduction to Cloud

Formation on AWS
AWS Cloud Formation is a powerful service that allows you to create,
manage, and provision your cloud infrastructure as code. This
presentation will provide an overview of Cloud Formation, its key benefits,
and how to effectively use it to deploy and manage your AWS resources.
What is AWS Cloud Formation?
AWS Cloud Formation is a
declarative infrastructure as code
(IaC) service provided by Amazon
Web Services (AWS). It allows you
to create, manage, and provision
your AWS resources, such as EC2
instances, databases, and network
configurations, by defining them
in a template.

The template, written in JSON or

YAML, describes the desired state
of your infrastructure, and Cloud
Formation handles the process of
creating and updating those
resources on your behalf.
Key Benefits of AWS Cloud Formation

Increased Efficiency Consistent Deployments

Cloud Formation automates the provisioning of Templates ensure that your infrastructure is
AWS resources, reducing the time and effort deployed in a consistent, repeatable manner,
required to set up and manage infrastructure. preventing configuration drift and improving
reliability.

Cost Optimization Scalability and Agility

By managing resources declaratively, Cloud Cloud Formation makes it easy to scale your
Formation can help you optimize your cloud spend infrastructure up or down as needed, enabling you
and avoid unnecessary costs. to adapt quickly to changing business
requirements.
Core Components of Cloud Formation

Templates Stacks
Cloud Formation templates are the foundation, Stacks are instances of Cloud Formation templates,
defining the desired state of your infrastructure in representing your deployed infrastructure resources.
JSON or YAML format.

Parameters Outputs
Parameters allow you to customize your templates by Outputs expose values from your template, such as
accepting user-provided inputs during deployment. resource IDs or URLs, making them available for
other resources or applications.
Creating Cloud Formation Templates

Define Resources
Describe the AWS resources you want to create, such as EC2 instances,
1
databases, and networking components.

Specify Parameters
2 Define customizable inputs that allow users to provide specific values
during deployment.

Add Dependencies
3 Declare the relationships between resources to ensure they are
created in the correct order.

Use Functions
4 Leverage built-in Cloud Formation functions to add dynamic
and conditional logic to your templates.

Test and Validate

5 Validate your templates to ensure they are
syntactically correct and will deploy successfully.

Creating effective Cloud Formation templates is the foundation for successfully managing your infrastructure as code.
By defining your resources, specifying parameters, and adding the necessary dependencies, you can build templates
that are reusable, scalable, and easy to maintain.
Deploying Cloud Formation Stacks

Create Stack
1
Provision your infrastructure by launching a new Cloud Formation stack from a template.

Specify Parameters
2
Customize your stack by providing any necessary input parameters.

Review and Deploy

3 Validate your stack configuration and kick off the
deployment process.

Deploying a Cloud Formation stack is a straightforward process. First, you create a new stack from your pre-defined
template. Then, you provide any required input parameters to customize the deployment. Finally, you review the stack
configuration and initiate the provisioning of your infrastructure resources.
Updating and Deleting Cloud Formation Stacks
Updating Stacks
1
To make changes to an existing Cloud
Formation stack, you can update the template
and apply those changes incrementally. Cloud Preserving State
2
Formation will analyze the differences and When updating a stack, Cloud Formation
update only the necessary resources. preserves the existing state of your
infrastructure. This ensures that critical
resources are not accidentally deleted or
Deleting Stacks 3 replaced during the update process.
If you no longer need a Cloud Formation
stack, you can delete it to remove all the
associated resources. This frees up cloud
resources and helps you maintain an
organized and efficient infrastructure.
Monitoring Cloud Formation Stacks

Real-time Visibility

1 Monitor the status, events, and resource changes of your Cloud Formation stacks using the AWS
Management Console or APIs.

Alerts and Notifications

2 Set up CloudWatch alarms to receive alerts when your stacks encounter errors or drift from the desired
state.

Auditing and Logging

3 Track all stack-related activities, such as creation, updates, and deletions, using AWS CloudTrail for
comprehensive auditing.

Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

4 Leverage detailed stack events and resource-level information to identify and resolve issues with your
deployed infrastructure.
Best Practices for Cloud Formation

Modular Templates Version Control Comprehensive Testing Governance &

Compliance
Organize your Cloud Use a version control Implement a robust testing
Formation templates into system like Git to track strategy, including unit Enforce organizational
modular, reusable changes to your templates tests, integration tests, policies and compliance
components to promote and enable collaboration and deployment requirements by using
maintainability and across teams. validations, to ensure your AWS Config, AWS
scalability. templates work as CloudFormation StackSets,
expected. and other governance
tools.
Conclusion and Next
Steps
In this presentation, we've explored the power and versatility of AWS
CloudFormation, a robust infrastructure as code (IaC) service that
revolutionizes the way you manage your cloud resources. As you move
forward, consider these next steps to unlock the full potential of
CloudFormation and streamline your cloud infrastructure management.