AWS CloudFormation Designer is a tool that lets you create and edit CloudFormation templates using a GUI. Designer hides a lot of the complexity of editing a CloudFormation template using a standard text editor. You can access it directly at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/designer or in the CloudFormation dashboard after you click on Create Stack:
The workflow is fairly simple. You simply drag and drop resources from the left-hand side menu into a canvas. Once your resources are added, you can then connect them to other resources using the small dots surrounding each resource icon. In the preceding ...
