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Template Anatomy

The components of an AWS CloudFormation template are JSON-compliant declarations. This chapter describes them all in detail.

Topics

Template Declaration
Template Format Version Declaration
Template Description Declaration
Parameters Declaration
Mappings Declaration
Resource Declaration
Properties Declaration
Function Declaration
Outputs Declaration

This section describes the parts of a template in detail.

Note

After you have a template written, you can validate its syntactic correctness using cfn-validate-template. For more information, see Validating a Template.

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