AWS CloudFormation Simplified | Hands-On with YAML
Master your AWS CloudFormation journey from beginner to advanced. Learn YAML, Resources, Parameters, Mappings, Conditions, Nested Stacks, cfn-init, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code on AWS.
What You'll Learn
Course Resources
Every course comes with companion resources — follow along step-by-step.
What's Inside
17 sections covering the complete DevOps lifecycle — from Docker basics to production CI/CD.
Introduction to CloudFormation
1 demos
YAML Essentials for CloudFormation
1 demos
CloudFormation Resources
2 demos
CloudFormation Parameters
2 demos
CloudFormation Mappings
1 demos
CloudFormation Conditions
1 demos
CloudFormation Outputs
1 demos
CloudFormation Metadata
1 demos
CloudFormation cfn-init and UserData
2 demos
CloudFormation Helper Scripts
1 demos
CloudFormation Nested Stacks
2 demos
CloudFormation Drift Detection
1 demos
CloudFormation Stack Policies
1 demos
CloudFormation Change Sets
1 demos
CI/CD for CloudFormation with CodePipeline
1 demos
CloudFormation Best Practices
1 demos
Congratulations
What Students Are Saying
Real reviews from Udemy students — 1,470 ratings, 4.4 average
awesome introduction, was able to learn a lot of cloud formation
Mohammedhassain Sait
The creator is very knowledgeable and breaks each individual step down. Making learning the concept very easy
Mcgennings Imoroa
Very simplistic way and a lot of coverage with examples. Thank you!
Tushar Parekh
Thanks, Kalyan for this wonderful course. I like the way teaching concepts with practical examples.
Sathish kumar Balasubramanian
This gives me the detail I need to accomplish this, and its so far seems like its put in a way I can understand.
Stephen Hannu
A well detailed course on CloudFormation
Oluwaseun Ajibola Adiomowo
I have not seen any CloudFormation course on Udemy better than this. Simply amazing!
Moshood Adams
He is a very brilliant and intelligent instructor
Roheem Olayemi
Great course.
Daniel Wilson
The teacher is clear and thorough in his explanation. he makes it easy to understand.
Hachikaru Otunyenim
Kalyan has simply focused on what really matters and the explanation is crystal clear.
Naresh Kavala
Just finished the first section. So far explanation is neat and precise.
Ansar Koguru
I really like the introduction part. This course gives the overview at the very beginning stage itself.
Sandilyan Gurunathan
good
Surabhi Srivastava
Superb
Mahesh Patil5
it was very very good thank you
Neeta Satpute
good
Venkata Ravi Kumar Maddukuri
great
Sandeep Pasupuleti
A very long introduction. However, it looks very detailed.
Emmanuel Ebe
good
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Who Is This Course For?
Requirements
What You Need
- AWS Account with permissions to create EC2, VPC, S3, and IAM resources
- Computer with web browser and terminal access (Windows, macOS, or Linux)
- Basic understanding of AWS services like EC2, VPC, and S3 is helpful
No Prior Experience Needed
- No prior CloudFormation or Infrastructure as Code experience required
- No prior YAML experience needed — covered in the course
Your Instructor
Kalyan Reddy Daida
DevOps & Cloud Architect | AWS, Azure & Google Cloud
Architect with 15+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure. Every StackSimplify course focuses on real-world, hands-on implementation with step-by-step instructions and companion GitHub repos — not just theory, but production-ready skills.
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