AWS CloudFormation Step by Step: Intermediate to Advanced

Learn advanced AWS CloudFormation concepts from an AWS certified expert. Use AWS CloudFormation in Professional-level!

Created by: Emre Yilmaz • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer • Solutions Architect
Senior AWS Consultant & Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• Learn AWS CloudFormation's advanced level features in detail!
• Organize your stacks with cross-stack references and nested stacks.
• Define and deploy serverless resources with AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM).
• Detect and resolve stack drifts and import unmanaged resources to CloudFormation.
• Configure your EC2 instances with CloudFormation helper scripts.
• Prevent updates of your resources during a stack update with stack policies.
• Manage how updates will be performed on resources supporting policy attributes.
• Bring your own logic to CloudFormation with custom resources and wait conditions.

Requirements

• Knowledge of all topics in my AWS CloudFormation Step by Step: Beginner to Intermediate course
• Knowing how to create stacks, write templates, use template sections, create change-sets
• Knowing how to use the cloudformation commands of AWS CLI
• Intermediate level of AWS knowledge
• Basic YAML knowledge for writing and understanding templates

Target audience

• This course is not for beginners to AWS or AWS CloudFormation.
• This course is for those who finished or know all topics of my AWS CloudFormation Step by Step: Beginner to Intermediate course.
• This course is for intermediate-level AWS CloudFormation users who would like to learn its advanced-level features.