IMHO one of the most important missing pieces in CloudFormation is not having the ability to explicitly specify a SLEEP or WAIT function. It is not that it is totally impossible to the implement the same, except that, it would involve having a hard work around one of which is to inject the wait script via the user data with WaitHandle and WaitConditions on EC2 instances.
AWS CloudFormer helps you to create a CloudFormation template from the AWS resources currently running in your account using a few simple steps. The current CloudFormer makes use of the Default VPC to get started; this is usually fine except for the scenarios where we have deleted the Default VPC. This is CloudFormer template forked from AWS provided to extend the capability to provide the ability to specify the VPC.
The certification interests in AWS is picking up slowly and there are several people who are opting to take up AWS Certification. I recently took up AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Level Certification and cleared it.
I took and successfully cleared the Recertification exam for AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate Level today. I am still regretting not attemting advancing to the professional level; anyway … here is the blog post about the recertification exam. I previously blogged about the Preparing for the AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate level, 2 years ago.
This is a post where I would like to share about the things which I picked up over the course of time which has come really enjoyable writing an AWS CloudFormation template.
