ReadMe files for examples?

[karthikvee]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to AWS Cloudformation service, so trying to learn more about CF. If you could mention usage scenario like the one mentioned for EIP example for the other examples or add a ReadMe files as well that would be greatly helpful for me.

Thanks

[djedward]

If you are interested in this repository, you can find more details by watching the re:Invent talk these examples were created for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhGMaw67Yu0 . As you are newer to CloudFormation and if you prefer talks to reading documentation, there are a bunch of other CloudFormation re:Invent recordings from over the years published there.

As a warning, that particular video is quite old and CloudFormation has launched a lot of new features since then. CloudFormation introduced Lambda-based custom resources, which are a much easier option for custom resources (if it fits with your needs). Here is a walkthrough of a similar AMI task, but using Lambda: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/walkthrough-custom-resources-lambda-lookup-amiids.html