Hello, and welcome to this course where I shall be introducing you to the AWS CloudFormation Service, and how it can be used to automatically provision your AWS resources across multiple accounts and regions, all from a simple text file. I will explain the components of this service and how they operate together to provide you with the feature of provisioning your infrastructure as code. 

Before we start, I'd like to introduce myself, my name is Stuart Scott, I'm one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy, and I specialize in AWS, Amazon Web Services. Feel free to contact me with any questions using the details shown on the screen, alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to suppport@cloudacademy.com, where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question. 

This course will be made up of the following lectures: Firstly, what is AWS CloudFormation? This lecture will explain what the service is and does, and the benefits that it brings to your environment. Following this, I'll look at CloudFormation Components. And here I shall provide a high-level overview of some of the main components that make up the service, to provide you with an understanding of how it's pieced together. Next, I'll then look at how you create a CloudFormation Stack. And this provides a demonstration on how to create an AWS CloudFormation stack, using an existing AWS template. And then finally, there'll be a short summary lecture just highlighting the key points from the previous lectures. 

By the end of this course, you'll be able to explain what AWS CloudFormation is and what it's used for. Determine the benefits of AWS CloudFormation. Understand what each of the core components is and what they are used for. And how to create a CloudFormation Stack using an existing AWS template. As a pre-requisite of this course, it would be beneficial to you to have an understanding of basic AWS concepts and core services. Throughout this course, I will reference a number of URL links which will help and direct you to related information on specific topics. To make these links easily accessible to you, I have included them at the top of the transcript within the lecture that they are referenced. 

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