Week 6 transformed CloudFormation from a mere "infrastructure creation tool" into an "organizational operations platform." We began with template structure and stack lifecycle on Day 1, progressed through safe change management (Change Sets, Drift Detection, Rollback Triggers) on Day 2, large-scale IaC patterns (Nested/Cross-Stack/StackSets) on Day 3, and concluded with self-service and dynamic configuration (Service Catalog, AppConfig, AppRegistry) on Day 4.
In SOA-C02, CloudFormation isn't a simple API memorization exercise