Cloud Formation

Question 1

what does cloud formation custom resources refer to?

Answer 1

it is a section in the cloud formation template used to define resources, not yet supported by cloud formation

Question 2

what is a cloud formation stack set?

Answer 2

Lets you create update or delete stacks across multiple accounts and regions with a single operation/template

Question 3

what happens when you update a stack set?

Answer 3

All associated stack instances are updated throughout all accounts and regions

Question 4

Who can create stack sets?

Answer 4

Only admin account accounts or delegated administrator

Question 5

How do you give your template to CF?

Answer 5

Upload it to S3

Question 6

What are the building blocks for a CF Template?

Answer 6

AWSTemplateFormatVersion – identifies the capabilities of the template “2010-09-09”
* Description – comments about the template
* Resources (MANDATORY) – your AWS resources declared in the template
* Parameters – the dynamic inputs for your template
* Mappings – the static variables for your template
* Outputs – references to what has been created
* Conditionals – list of conditions to perform resource creation