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Components of CloudFormation Template File

Explore the anatomy of the AWS CloudFormation template.

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A CloudFormation template is a script in JSON or YAML format that describes the stack to be built for our application deployment. Let’s look at the structure and sections of the AWS CloudFormation template.

Template sections

CloudFormation offers ten different sections in a template. Out of all the sections, only one is required, and the rest are ...