Follow along with this video tutorial on how to use an AWS CloudFormation template to create a stack. The tutorial uses the template located at https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-1/WordPress-1.0.0.template. Be sure to download it before watching the video.
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this is a dream.. control over my own datacenter using programmatic API, JSON.. Really I dream about this 8 years ago š