What are CloudFormation Templates?
CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML formatted text files that define the infrastructure resources and configurations you want to provision on AWS. It uses a declarative templating concept to model the infrastructure this template can be in JSON or YAMl formatted files, to define the AWS infrastructure resources and their configurations. Meaning users can describe your infrastructure in a declarative template, and CloudFormation handles the provisioning and configuration of those resources.
AWS CloudFormation Templates
CloudFormation is a popular Infrastructure as a code (Iac) tool provided by Amazon web services (AWS) that allows users to automate the provisioning of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lamda, etc.CloudFormation manages the entire lifecycle of your infrastructure, including provisioning, updating, and deleting resources. It handles dependencies between resources and provides features like rollback and drift detection to maintain the desired state of your infrastructure.