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CloudFormation: Nested stacks

CloudFormation: Nested stacks - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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CloudFormation: Nested stacks

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- [Instructor] Hi. In this video we'll talk about CloudFormation nested stacks. At the end of this video, you will be able to explain what is a nested stack and what it allows you to do, and understand the relationship between a nested stack and change sets. Let's get right into it. Think about this scenario. You are a cloud engineer and you were assigned to create a CloudFormation template for a client to help them set up their E-commerce website that caters to millions of users worldwide. Few weeks after deployment, there is a need to update all the EC2 instances in the stack you created, and you started to update the template you created. You notice that all the EC2 instances you defined have the same configurations. You immediately realize that it would've been nice to change the configuration of all the EC2 instances in one go since they are configured exactly the same, instead of revising each EC2 instance declared in the template, which could result in potential error. This is…

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