As someone who has spent countless hours working on AWS CloudFormation templates, I have learnt that the right tool can make all the difference. That’s why, I am super excited today to share the 5 best VSCode extensions for CloudFormation to boost productivity and make your life easier as a Read More
How to Associate Elastic IP with EC2 Instance using CloudFormation Dear Reader, hope you are doing well. In my previous post, we talked about Elastic IP and its significance with respect to EC2 Instances. We also allocated an elastic IP to our account and then associated that with one of Read More
How to Create an S3 Bucket using CloudFormation with JSON and YAML Example In one of my posts, you have seen how to create an S3 bucket using the AWS console. Today, I’ll cover how to create an S3 bucket using CloudFormation. Related: How to Create an S3 Bucket using Read More
Subscribe an SQS Queue to an SNS Topic using CloudFormation Dear Reader, I hope you are doing great. Remember a few days ago, I shared a post with you on how to create an SNS topic and subscription using AWS CloudFormation. In this post, I will help you subscribe an Read More
How to Create Security Group in AWS using CloudFormation Dear reader, I hope you are doing great. In this post, I will help you create security group in AWS using CloudFormation. I will show you various ways in which you can create/define the backbone of a security group i.e inbound/outbound rules. Read More
AWS cloudformation create-stack vs deploy: Which One to Use? If you have deployed a CloudFormation template in AWS using CLI, I am sure you had the same confusion which I was having a few days back. Having two options create-stack and deploy, it becomes quite confusing on which one to Read More
How to Deploy CloudFormation Template using AWS CLI When it comes to creating and managing resources on AWS, there are many ways in which you can achieve this. AWS CloudFormation is the IaC(Infrastructure as Code) way of provisioning resources. AWS CloudFormation lets you deploy your resources on AWS in a Read More
How to Convert CloudFormation JSON to YAML and Vice Versa You have a CloudFormation template in JSON and you want to convert it into YAML. You try searching for some JSON to YAML online converter and try it. But sad, it doesn’t quite work with CloudFormation specific syntax. Sounds familiar? Read More
How to Create DynamoDB Global Table using CloudFormation In my previous post, we learnt How to Create DynamoDB Global Table using AWS Console. We also learnt that DynamoDB global tables are helpful when we have our application users spread worldwide. It helps us provide data access at lower latency and Read More
How to Create VPC using CloudFormation Dear Reader, I hope you are doing well. In this post, I am sharing with you how to create VPC using CloudFormation on AWS. When it comes to creating Amazon Virtual Private Cloud or VPC, you can use AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS Read More
