Resources are your actual pieces of AWS infrastructure. These are your EC2 instances, S3 buckets, ELBs, and so on. Almost any resource type you can create by pointing and clicking in the AWS web console can also be created using CloudFormation.
It's not practical to list all the AWS resource types in this chapter, although you will get familiar with the most common types as you work your way through the recipes in this book. AWS keeps a definitive list of resources types here
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-template-resource-type-ref.html.
There are a few important things to keep in mind about CloudFormation resources:
- New or bleeding-edge AWS resources are often not immediately supported. CloudFormation ...
