Getting started with AWS CloudFormation StackSets

Before you create your first stack set, be sure that you have completed required account setup steps in Prerequisites for stack set operations.

The template in this walkthrough enables AWS Config in a target account within the US West (Oregon) Region (us-west-2) and US East (N. Virginia) Region (us-east-1). The Enable AWS Config template is located in the following S3 bucket: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-stackset-sample-templates-us-east-1/EnableAWSConfig.yml. You can also choose this sample template in the StackSets console.

Topics

• Create a stack set
• Update your stack set
• Add stacks to a stack set
• Override parameters on stack instances
• Delete stack instances from your stack set
• Delete a stack set
• Manage automatic deployments for a stack set with service-managed permissions