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Formation
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Warning: Formation is under active development and its API is unstable.

Formation defines a terse Python syntax which compiles to CloudFormation. Formation aims to automate the CloudFormation template writing process.


Motivation
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Formation aims to bring two new features to CloudFormation:

- automation
- composability


Automation
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Formation aggressively automates the CloudFormation template writing process. If we wish to create a template containing a VPC using native CloudFormation, we can write the following:

.. code-block:: yaml

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Formation
=========

Warning: Formation is under active development and its API is unstable.

Formation defines a terse Python syntax which compiles to CloudFormation. Formation aims to automate the CloudFormation template writing process.


Motivation
----------

Formation aims to bring two new features to CloudFormation:

- automation
- composability


Automation
**********

Formation aggressively automates the CloudFormation template writing process. To show this, we first examine a template written in stock CloudFormation. To create a template containing a VPC, we can write the following:

.. code-block:: yaml

  Resources:
{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.08715251690458302, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 4.6923076923076925, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 3, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 3, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
{'dir': 'git-commits-cleaned', 'id': '850217', 'n_tokens_mistral': 335, 'n_tokens_neox': 306, 'n_words': 157}