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 ValidateTemplate 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 Mappings to ensure your template works in multiple Regions.

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Using a single template for the entire stack can lead to complex and hard-to-manage templates. It's better to modularize templates for different layers or components of the stack.

Your Team Wants to Begin Practicing Continuous Delivery Using CloudFormation