Working with AWS CloudFormation

AWS Cloud Formation is a service that allows you to define a template that describes a set of resources to be deployed together using JSON or YAML syntax. The templates follow this structure in the JSON format:

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "version date",
  "Description" : "JSON string",
  "Metadata" : { template metadata },
  "Parameters" : { set of parameters },
  "Rules" : { set of rules },
  "Mappings" : { set of mappings },
  "Conditions" : { set of conditions },
  "Transform" : { set of transforms },
  "Resources" : { set of resources },
  "Outputs" : { set of outputs }
}

Deploying with AWS CloudFormation comes down to the following steps:

1. Creating an IAM user with the AWS CLI
2. Creating a service connection to...