Introduction to AWS CloudFormation Designer

This lab introduces the AWS CloudFormation Designer, which provides a visual tool for creating and modifying CloudFormation templates. Prerequisites: This lab assumes that you have an introductory-level knowledge of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS CloudFormation. Students should have taken the Introductory-level labs for each of these Services before taking this lab.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create a simple single-instance stack using AWS CloudFormation Designer
• Add and edit Mappings, Resource Parameters, and Outputs
• Validate the stack and save your basic template
• Launch the stack and view the running stack and its Outputs
• Delete and clean up when the stack is no longer required

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers
• DevOps Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Introductory level knowledge of Amazon EC2 and AWS CloudFormation

Course Outline

• Task 1: Add an Instance Resource
• Task 2: Set Parameters
• Task 3: Add Mappings
• Task 4:  Add Outputs
• Task 5: Specify Resource Properties
• Task 6: Create the Stack
• Task 7: View the Running Stack