New Amazon Web Service CloudFormation Template Editors for Visual Studio and Eclipse : Stakes and Opportunities


Definition
For those who unfamiliar, AWS CloudFormation gives you the possibility to launch an entire stack of Amazon Web Service resources using a declarative template.  JSON-formatted text files define all of the necessary resources, their attributes, and the relationships between them.

The GOAL
in fact since December 201, 2012 we assisted to the release of a new CloudFormation editor. The goal here is create easily the templates using Visual Studio or Eclipse. Therefore you can: Browse the list of available AWS resources to insert into your template; Insert definition blocks for AWS resources that let you fill in the blanks for config; Create and update your CloudFormation stacks straight from your template in Visual Studio or Eclipse.

The CloudFormation template editor
 Amazon mentioned that: ‘’The CloudFormation template editor understands the template format and provides intelligent assistance as you're editing.  You can use code completion with inline descriptions to quickly find and insert definition blocks for different AWS resources.  Then you simply configure your specific details into the placeholders. The editor will also validate your template as you make changes to identify any problems in the file.  Once you define your templates, you can use them to create and update your stack of AWS resources right from within Visual Studio and Eclipse. ‘’
The editor is available as part of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio and the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse.

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