You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want (like Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances), and CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring …

Describes key concepts for AWS CloudFormation and provides instructions for getting started. CloudFormation helps you model and set up AWS resources by treating infrastructure as code.

AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management on AWS. You can create templates for the service or application architectures you want and have AWS CloudFormation use those …

An AWS CloudFormation template defines the AWS resources you want to create, update, or delete as part of a stack. It consists of several sections, but the only required section is the Resources section, …

When you use CloudFormation to create your stack, CloudFormation makes underlying service calls to AWS to provision and configure the resources described in your template.

# Resources section Resources: MyEC2Instance: Type: AWS::EC2::Instance Properties: # Linux AMI ImageId: ami-1234567890abcdef0 InstanceType: t2.micro KeyName: MyKey BlockDeviceMappings: …

Resource types and properties – These are the different types of AWS resources that you can create and manage using CloudFormation. Each resource type has its own set of properties that you can …

The following template contains an AWS::EC2::Instance resource with a DependsOn attribute that specifies myDB, an AWS::RDS::DBInstance. When CloudFormation creates this stack, it first creates …

If you're new to using conditions in your templates, we recommend you first review the CloudFormation template Conditions syntax topic in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Lists the detailed reference information for all AWS resource and property types that CloudFormation supports.