to start making this infrastructure you have to run network.yml first so it set up the vpc and public/private subnets that is needed to deploy (you have to make sure you logged in to aws in console using aws configure)
aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name network --template-body file://network.yml --parameters file://network.json --capabilities "CAPABILITY_IAM" "CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM" --region=us-east-1
aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name infrastructure --template-body file://awsInfrastructure.yml --parameters file://awsInfrastructure.json --capabilities "CAPABILITY_IAM" "CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM" --region=us-east-1