Your Team Wants to Begin Practicing Continuous Delivery Using CloudFormation

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Multiple Choice

Your team wants to begin practicing continuous delivery using CloudFormation, to enable automated builds and deploys of whole, versioned stacks or stack layers. You have a 3-tier, mission-critical system. Which of the following is NOT a best practice for using CloudFormation in a continuous delivery environment?

• A) Use the AWS CloudFormation <code>ValidateTemplate</code> call before publishing changes to AWS.
• B) Model your stack in one template, so you can leverage CloudFormation's state management and dependency resolution to propagate all changes.
• C) Use CloudFormation to create brand new infrastructure for all stateless resources on each push, and run integration tests on that set of infrastructure.
• D) Parametrize the template and use <code>Mappings</code> to ensure your template works in multiple Regions.

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