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Hands-On Introduction to CloudFormation - 2 hour course (Udemy.com)

Learn the basics of CloudFormation with minimal AWS knowledge required. Simple, fun exercises for hands on experience!

4.6
616 reviews

Created by: Rick Crisci

Last updated April 2025

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What you will learn

  • Understand basic CloudFormation concepts and templates, resources, and stacks
  • Write, Modify, Update, and Execute a series of CloudFormation Templates and Stacks
  • Use options like conditions, outputs, mappings, references, and paramaters
  • Understand the best ways to design and debug CloudFormation Templates

How it compares

Against the other 235 rated Udemy courses in AWS on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 64% of them
  • Reviews616#140 of 236 by number of reviews
  • Length2.1 hoursshorter than 92% of them
  • Last updatedApril 2025more recently than 57% of them

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Course Description

"This course is a well elaborated introduction to Cloud Formation. Rick makes easy to follow up the examples and to understand the official documentation." -Diego

"Very clear, concise language. Using AWS terminology and carefully explains processes and use cases." Jonathan


Why should I pick this course?

Do you need to understand the basics of CloudFormation? Have you found that many training resources use complex technical jargon that makes it difficult to understand the basic concepts? If you need to get a basic understanding of CloudFormation quickly and clearly, this is the course for you.

Will I learn how to apply this in real life?

We will use real examples of CloudFormation Templates that you can try on your own. You can modify and play with these templates. Getting started will be easy and painless!

Learn from an official AWS instructor

I spent years teaching directly for AWS as one of their approved instructors.

This course will teach you the following:

  • The basic concepts of CloudFormation and what it can be used for

  • How to separate CloudFormation templates to make them reusable and easy to debug

  • Understand the tools used to create CloudFormation templates

  • Understand and modify YAML formatted CloudFormation Templates

  • Using CloudFormation Designer to get a visual representation of your templates

  • How to create an EC2 instance with an Elastic IP, and IAM role, and a Security Group

  • How to apply tags to the resources you create

  • Create an S3 bucket with versioning enabled

  • Update CloudFormation stacks with a new S3 bucket name

  • Use parameters to allow users to provide input when creating a CloudFormation stack

  • Use conditions to customize which resources are created in different situations

  • Use mappings with test and dev environments and across different regions

I have taught hundreds of thousands of students across a variety of platforms, and I think anyone who needs to understand CloudFormation will love this course. Most lectures in this course are 5 - 10 minutes long. This course gives you an understanding of the most critical knowledge areas of CloudFormation and gives you hands-on experience.
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Instructor Details

Rick Crisci

I am the owner of TrainerTests and have delivered thousands of hours of official live training to my students, and I love teaching people new skills.

I provide video training unlike any other organization. I believe in using high quality illustrations and animations to simplify complex concepts. In my courses you will get the technical depth that you need, with a focus on making sure that you completely understand the underlying concepts.

Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, I always enjoy making new contacts with my students!

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4.6

616 ratings on Udemy

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By Ishant Saxena on 7/19/2026

Good for just initial understanding and macro know-how of the topic. Too Many unnecessary quiz which have irrelevant questions is a stretch.

By Anna Grzebyk on 1/15/2026

I really enjoyed this course, it was a good start for Cloud Formation. Good narrator, voice is approachable and I was able to focus on the content

By Antonio Alvarez Juan on 5/30/2025

This course is really focused on hands on and struggles with CloudFormation tips and tricks. I've found it really valuable and I recommend it to students who wants to start in CloudFormation with a deep foundation. I had the opportunity to learn a lot of new skills. Thank you

By William Dealey on 3/6/2025

Instructor explains the concepts very clearly and makes it easy to understand. I have taken several courses with Rick and and I have learned from each one.

By Fernando Piñero on 11/24/2024

Good course, it delivers on its promises, straight to the point, and especially useful for getting started with AWS CloudFormation. The professor's vocalization is perfect.

By Nadella Venkata Gagan Rohith on 7/4/2024

Helped me learn how create templates and improved my understanding of YAML files, Examples and demos shown in the course were also very useful. As a beginner learning cloud formation this course would be useful.

By Anonymized User on 12/6/2023

This was a great course for someone who wants to get a quick understanding of Cloud formation in about 2 Hours. very concise and straight forward

By Anonymized User on 8/30/2023

I wanted a quick introduction to various aspects of CF and this course exactly did the same. Not too in-depth but enough to help you understand the CF scripts, in a way that you can write your own scripts with a bit of documentation help and a bit of trail-and-error. Really like the downloadable scripts the instructor has provided!

By Anonymized User on 9/13/2022

Good start to AWS CloudFormation. The course covers most of the concepts and all templates are good start for understanding IAAC quickly. It would be great If you can share the course presentation or all the AWS template links can be described in one text file inside the course itself as the course references AWS templates links. It is useful to follow the links after completion course also.

By Diego Mendoza on 7/10/2022

This course is a well elaborated introduction to Cloud Formation. Rick makes easy to follow up the examples and to understand the official documentation.

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  • Updated: icon April 2025
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