One of my few new goals for this year is to get back to blogging regularly about stuff I’m learning or interested in.  Keep a look out here for (hopefully!) more content this year than previous years which might have had just a handful of posts.

AWS CloudFormation is a utility that allows you to define AWS “infrastructure” as code in text files called Templates.  You can use it to deploy almost anything via JSON or YAML scripts.  The deployed resources are collectively called stacks.  There are other IaC options here as well, like Terraform, but I think it is handy to know the native toolset as well.  Plus if you are going for AWS certifications you’ll need to be familiar with it.

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