You are a Devops Engineer for your company. You are responsible for creating Cloudformation templates for your company. There is a requirement to ensure that an S3 bucket is created for all resources in development for logging purposes. How would you achieve this?

Answer options:

A.Create separate Cloudformation templates for Development and production.
B.Create a parameter in the Cloudformation template and then use the Condition clause in the template to create an S3 bucket if the parameter has a value of development
C.Create an S3 bucket from before and then just provide access based on the tag value mentioned in the Cloudformation template
D.Use the metadata section in the Cloudformation template to decide on whether to create the S3 bucket or not.

Answer – B
The AWS Documentation mentions the following
You might use conditions when you want to reuse a template that can create resources in different contexts, such as a test environment versus a production environment. In your template, you can add an EnvironmentType input parameter, which accepts either prod or test as inputs. For the production environment, you might include Amazon EC2 instances with certain capabilities; however, for the test environment, you want to use reduced capabilities to save money. With conditions, you can define which resources are created and how they`re configured for each environment type.
For more information on Cloudformation conditions please visit the below url
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/conditions-section-structure.html