If you frequently set up environments AWS and resources that need to be up and down on demand and wish you had some way to automate that process. Basically, bring up those AWS resources like EC2 instances, DBs, etc; and tear them down when you don’t need them; this blog post is something that might be for you.

In the template, you declare the AWS resources you want to create and configure.

If in the future you want to test with a different template and input parameters, you can use the Lambda console to update the environment variables of the Lambda function. The Lambda function has been granted the Administrator role to allow AWS CloudFormation to create any AWS resources that are defined in your template.

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