AWS CloudFormation is a service that help you model and set up Amazon Web Services resources. You can spend less time managing resources and focus more on the applications that run on AWS. If you create a template that describes all of the AWS resources that you wan to use, such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances, AWS CloudFormation will be responsible for provisioning and configuring these resources on your behalf. You don’t have to create and design individual AWS resources and think about their dependencies. AWS CloudFormation handles everything.
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