The CloudFormation cluster generator tool they have is really cool. (http://cloud.memsql.com/cloudformation) The templates it generates are pretty complex, I wonder if that is hand written or using some kind tool.. would anyone be able to shed some light on how they did it? Do you think most of it is hand coded? I've been playing around with the .NET SDK in VisualStudio 2013.. it includes a cloud formation project type, and you can type out the JSON with Intellisense which is pretty cool.
Hi @superlogical, thank you for using it and for the kind feedback! CloudFormation by itself provides some very basic level of conditional/looping logic, but we found that it was not enough yet to provide a stellar experience. So, when you fill out the form on cloud.memsql.com, we auto-generate a template (we wrote the code to do this) that matches the parameters you filled in, upload it to an S3 bucket on our account, and then expose it as a download or via GET directly to your AWS account (i.e. you own the hardware/database/data).
