May 1, 2024
Updated June 21, 2025
20 minute read
Navigating the Clouds: An Introduction to AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation is a service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that helps you model and set up your Amazon Web Services resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications that run in AWS. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want (like Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances), and CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you. This process allows for automated, repeatable, and predictable deployments of your infrastructure, a concept often referred to as Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
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Reading list
We've selected four books
that we think will supplement your
learning. Use these to
develop background knowledge, enrich your coursework, and gain a
deeper understanding of the topics covered in
AWS CloudFormation.
This cookbook provides practical recipes for using AWS CloudFormation to solve common infrastructure problems.
Beginner-friendly guide to using AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage AWS resources.
Practical guide to using AWS CloudFormation to design and architect cloud solutions for enterprise customers.
Is an official guide from Amazon Web Services on how to use AWS CloudFormation.
For more information about how these books relate to this course, visit:
OpenCourser.com/topic/yeown5/aws