Using CloudFormation templates

CloudFormation is used to define, provision, and manage a collection of related AWS resources. This collection is referred to as a CloudFormation stack. The stack’s template can be defined in YAML or JSON. Hence, the input to CloudFormation is a YAML file and the output is the provisioned AWS resources.

There are many sample CloudFormation templates available from AWS. You will probably never have to create a CloudFormation template from scratch. You can always download a sample and modify it to meet your requirements. These samples include templates for big data applications, including streaming applications, machine learning and deep learning applications, serverless applications, and many more.

Access the GitHub repository for AWS labs for sample CloudFormation templates at: https://github.com/awslabs.

In this section, we will use a sample CloudFormation template to create a data lake solution.

For more detailed instructions on the data lake CloudFormation example presented here, refer to: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-data-lake-solution.

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