Chapter 4. Deploying a Static Website with CloudFormation
In this chapter, you will learn:
- How to deploy a template of a static website with CloudFormation
- How to deploy a template with the AWS CLI
Introduction
CloudFormation is a deployment tool that helps to provision your infrastructure using AWS resources such as EC2, IAM, RDS, Route 53, S3, and so on by creating a template to code your infrastructure in it so that you can deploy your infrastructure repeatedly. An AWS CloudFormation template is a text file and its format is the JSON standard and all the resources in the template are a single unit called stack. For example, imagine that you need to design and integrate a typical 3-tier web system with VPC, EC2, EBS, RDS, Route53, and ELB to deploy ...
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