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AWS CloudFormation provides a handful of pseudo parameters which you can use along with your template conditions and parameters to increase the reusability of your templates. One of them is the AWS::NoValue parameter which acts as the null value in programming languages.

In this post, I will talk about some examples of its use cases.

Continue reading the AWS::NoValue on CloudFormation: Conditional Property Configuration blog post.

I am happy to announce that my first online course, AWS CloudFormation Step by Step: Beginner to Intermediate, is now live on Udemy.

In this post, I want to introduce you with this new course. I will talk about the topics, what you will learn by taking it as well as the structure of the course. In addition, I will also share a free coupon that will be valid for a limited time with the followers of this blog.

Continue reading the My AWS CloudFormation Step by Step: Beginner to Intermediate Course is Live on Udemy! blog post.

In an AWS CloudFormation template, you define independent resources or resources that are implicitly dependent; in other words, referencing other resources. For instance, you can define an Amazon EC2 instance and a security group. Then, you might choose to attach the security group to the EC2 instance or not. In these two cases, AWS CloudFormation organizes the order of the resource creations differently.

In addition, you might have another resource, such as an Amazon SNS topic in the same template, which you might want to provision after your EC2 instance is created. Maybe you have an explicit dependency between them.

In this blog post, I will talk about how AWS CloudFormation handles the order of creation for independent or implicitly dependent resources. I will also explain how to add your custom dependencies in a template.

Continue reading the The Order of Resource Creations on AWS CloudFormation blog post.

To begin with, wishing you a happy new year in 2019! I hope that the new year brings more health, joy, and success to you and more peace to the world.

Almost two weeks ago, I passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam with a 91% score and completed my goal of holding all five core AWS certifications for 2018. At the beginning of last October, I also passed the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam with an 85% score. Unfortunately, I could not have time to write a post about my experiences until now. So, today I would like to share them briefly.

Continue reading the Happy to Pass AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and Hold All 5 Core AWS Certifications blog post.

The most popular usage of Amazon CloudFront is to distribute static content such as images, videos or other objects existing in an Amazon S3 bucket. However, you can also use Amazon CloudFront to distribute your dynamic content such as a Ruby on Rails or PHP web application and benefit from the advantages of utilizing the globally distributed network infrastructure of AWS. In this blog post, I will talk about the advantages and the necessary configuration options for creating an Amazon CloudFront distribution for a dynamic web application.

Continue reading the Serving Dynamic Websites with Amazon CloudFront blog post.