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Amazon EC2 Cookbook

You're reading from  Amazon EC2 Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280047
Pages 194 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Amazon EC2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Selecting and Configuring Amazon EC2 Instances 2. Configuring and Securing a Virtual Private Cloud 3. Managing AWS Resources Using AWS CloudFormation 4. Securing Access to Amazon EC2 Instances 5. Monitoring Amazon EC2 Instances 6. Using AWS Data Services 7. Accessing Other AWS Services 8. Deploying AWS Applications Index

Creating CloudFormation templates from existing AWS resources


AWS CloudFormer can be used to create AWS CloudFormation templates from the existing AWS resources. This section describes the steps for creating a CloudFormation template from your existing AWS resources using the CloudFormer tool. The AWS CloudFormer tool will automatically detect the dependent resources for a given AWS resource. For example, if you select an EC2 instance, then CloudFormer will automatically select the associated security groups.

How to do it…

Follow the steps to create your AWS CloudFormation template from your existing AWS resources:

  1. Login to the AWS console.

  2. Navigate to the CloudFormation service.

  3. Click on Launch CloudFormer and continue with default options. If you want to restrict the access to CloudFormation tool, specify the appropriate IP address range. Check the checkbox that says I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources.

  4. Within minutes, your CloudFormer stack...

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