Cloud Formation

Question 1

What does cloud formation use

Answer 1

It uses templates to create, update and delete AWS infrastructure

Question 2

What is the most important section of template

Answer 2

Resources

Question 3

If we use both AWSTemplateFormatVersion and Description in Template

Answer 3

Description should immediately follow AWSTemplateFormatVersion

Question 4

Resources inside the template are called as ?

Answer 4

• They are called as logical resources
• They are called as instance
• It has type to define the type of resource

Question 5

Cloud formation uses template and creates ?

Answer 5

The cloud formation uses template to create stack
Stack is a living and active representation of the template.

Question 6

What is a stack

Answer 6

It is a living and active representation of template

Question 7

What is EC2

Answer 7

It is an AZ service

Question 8

What does cloudformation do with the logical resources defined in the template.

Answer 8

Any logical resources in the stack, then Cloud formation creates a physical resource in your aws account.

Question 9

High Availability

Answer 9

Minimize any outages

Question 10

Fault Tolerance

Answer 10

Operate through faults / failures

Question 11

Disaster recovery

Answer 11

This is used when High availability or Fault Tolerance don’t work.