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CloudFormation: Custom resource

CloudFormation: Custom resource

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CloudFormation: Custom resource

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- [Instructor] Now, let's talk about CloudFormation Custom Resource. In this video, you will be able to understand when to use a custom resource in your CloudFormation templates. Learn how a custom resource works and how AWS Lambda and SNS integrates with it. Explain what makes a custom resource different from CloudFormation Registry. CloudFormation custom resources are bits of logic that you declare to run during the provisioning phase of your CloudFormation template. This allows you to extend the features of CloudFormation to perform operations it could not normally do, like, provisioning resources that are not available as AWS CloudFormation resource type, provisioning non AWS resources and performing provisioning steps not related to infrastructure. Custom resources enable you to write custom provisioning logic in templates that AWS CloudFormation runs anytime you create, update, if you change the custom resource or delete stacks. So, how does a custom resource work? Actions taken…

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