Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation — AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate

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Amazon Web Services — CloudFormation best practices - AWS CloudFormation

CloudFormation StackSets extend the capability of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple accounts and regions with a single operation.
Amazon Web Services — Working with CloudFormation templates - AWS CloudFormation

you can specify the Git repository location and branch containing the template instead of uploading it directly or referencing an S3 URL. CloudFormation automatically monitors
Amazon Web Services — AWS Systems Manager Automation - AWS Systems Manager

Systems Manager adds the additional automations to a queue and displays a status of Pending. This quota can be adjusted using adaptive concurrency.
Amazon Web Services — AWS::CloudFormation::Stack - AWS CloudFormation

If you have IAM resources with custom names, you must specify CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM . If you don't specify either of these capabilities, CloudFormation returns an InsufficientCapabilities
Amazon Web Services — Auto Scaling launch templates - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

When you create a launch template, all parameters are optional.
Amazon Web Services — CloudFormation template Resources syntax - AWS CloudFormation

The Ref function is commonly used to retrieve an identifying property of resources defined within the same CloudFormation template.
Amazon Web Services — Create a launch template for an Auto Scaling group - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

If you don't specify any security groups in your launch template, Amazon EC2 uses the default security group for the VPC that your Auto Scaling
Amazon Web Services — Creating a stack from existing resources - AWS CloudFormation

For the --change-set-type option, specify a value of IMPORT .
Amazon Web Services — Creating your own runbooks - AWS Systems Manager

the service role must be configured with permission to invoke those services. This requirement applies to all AWS Automation runbooks
Amazon Web Services — Deploying applications to Elastic Beanstalk environments - AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Immutable – A slower deployment method, that ensures your new application version is always deployed to new instances, instead of updating existing instances. It
Amazon Web Services — Launching instances with synchronous provisioning - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

RetryStrategy: none (default) - If the API call fails, the Auto Scaling group's desired capacity remains unchanged and no automatic retry occurs.