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 with Public and Private Subnet using CloudFormation When it comes to creating Amazon Virtual Private Cloud or VPC, you can use AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK etc. Although, using console’s VPC wizard looks like the easiest option but imagine if you have to do Read More
Error Message : Number of distinct destination bucket ARNs cannot exceed 1 Problem: I was trying to setup Cross Region Replication on my S3 bucket using CloudFormation. I had a use-case where, replication needed to happen from one source bucket to multiple destination buckets. As far as I knew, AWS Read More
How to Create AWS SNS Topic Policy using CloudFormation Dear reader, I hope you are doing great. In one of my previous post, I explained how to use CloudFormation to create SNS topic and subscription. In today’s post, I am here to help you create SNS Topic Policy using CloudFormation. By Read More
How to Associate Elastic IP with EC2 Instance using CloudFormation Dear Reader, hope you are doing good. In my previous post, we talked about Elastic IP and it’s significance with respect to EC2 Instance. We also allocated an elastic IP to our account and then associated that to one of Read More
