Creating AWS HealthLake resources with AWS CloudFormation
AWS HealthLake is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a service that helps you to model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want and CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.
When you use CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your HealthLake resources consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions.
HealthLake and CloudFormation templates
To provision and configure resources for HealthLake and related services, you must understand CloudFormation templates. Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with CloudFormation templates. For more information, see What is CloudFormation Designer? in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
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AWS HealthLake supports creating data stores with CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for provisioning HealthLake data stores, see the AWS HealthLake resource type reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Learn more about CloudFormation
To learn more about CloudFormation, see the following resources:
