AWS CloudFormation is a text-based modelling tool that enables you to create templates that describe all the features of an VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC or any other AWS infrastructure.
To introduce this capbility to VMware Cloud on AWS customers, VMware has made a CloudFormation SDDC template available on code.vmware.com. Use this template as a starting point for working with AWS CloudFormation tools to create a CloudFormation stack and an AWS Lambda function that you can run to deploy an SDDC based on the template. For a more detailed explanation of this procedure, see VMware Cloud on AWS Integrations with CloudFormation on the VMware {code} blog and https://github.com/vmwaresamples/vmware-cloud-on-aws-integration-examples/blob/master/CloudFormation/README.md.
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The AWS Lambda function runs and creates an SDDC based on the template and environment variables you supplied. You can monitor the SDDC creation process on the SDDCs tab of the VMC Console or use the AWS Tasks API.