Creating CloudFormation templates from existing AWS resources

AWS CloudFormer can be used to create AWS CloudFormation templates from the existing AWS resources. This section describes the steps for creating a CloudFormation template from your existing AWS resources using the CloudFormer tool. The AWS CloudFormer tool will automatically detect the dependent resources for a given AWS resource. For example, if you select an EC2 instance, then CloudFormer will automatically select the associated security groups.

How to do it…

Follow the steps to create your AWS CloudFormation template from your existing AWS resources:

  1. Login to the AWS console.
  2. Navigate to the CloudFormation service.
  3. Click on Launch CloudFormer and continue with default options. If you ...

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