AWS CloudFormation uses templates to make the process easier (essentially, it’s a JSON or JavaScript Object Notation file you can use to track and manage resources). With templates, you can ...

CloudFormation simplifies that by pre-defining infrastructure configuration “stacks” into YAML files (think Kubernetes Object YAML but for AWS infrastructure), which can be fired up with one ...

CloudFormation takes care of provisioning, while taking into account any dependencies between resources, according to AWS. The template is a text file using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation ...

The flaw could be used by AWS Glue users to access other users' data. A second bug with AWS CloudFormation, also fixed, could have been used to leak sensitive files.