AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud

What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation (also called CloudFormation): Amazon Web Services' native infrastructure-as-code service. Templates written in YAML or JSON describe resources in a stack, and the service creates, updates and deletes them together, rolling back automatically if an update fails.

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AWS CloudFormation: an example

A template creates a VPC, subnets and a database in one stack, and deleting the stack removes them all.

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AWS CloudFormation is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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