Infrastructure as Code is a concept that describes the automated provisioning and management of enterprise infrastructure. In this course, you’ll learn about the Infrastructure as Code model for provisioning and managing enterprise infrastructure and how AWS CloudFormation is used to provide this ability. You’ll start by examining the concept of the Infrastructure as Code model, how AWS CloudFormation helps model and configure AWS resources, and CloudFormation concepts such as stacks, permissions, and templates. You’ll then learn how to create a CloudFormation stack, work with CloudFormation templates, and manage, update, and delete CloudFormation stacks. Next, you’ll see how to work with CloudFormation resources and specify CloudFormation parameters and mappings for templates. You’ll learn how to define conditions for CloudFormation templates and declare optional outputs for CloudFormation templates. Lastly, you’ll learn about CloudFormation intrinsic functions and rollbacks. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AWS Certified Developer - Associate 2020 certification exam.