Next Steps

This walkthrough took you through the basics of setting up a simple Windows application server stack. Here are some suggestions for what to do next.

• If you would like to know more, Getting Started: Cookbooks provides a tutorial introduction to implementing cookbooks, and includes a number of AWS OpsWorks Stacks-specific examples.

• You can add an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) layer to the stack to use as a backend database server. For information about how to connect your application to the database, see Using a Custom Recipe.