AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint

Specifies a VPC endpoint for a service. An endpoint enables you to create a private connection between your VPC and the service. The service may be provided by AWS, an AWS Marketplace Partner, or another AWS account. For more information, see VPC Endpoints in the AWS PrivateLink User Guide.

A gateway endpoint serves as a target for a route in your route table for traffic destined for the AWS service. You can specify an endpoint policy to attach to the endpoint, which controls access to the service from your VPC. You can also specify the VPC route tables that use the endpoint.

For information about connectivity when you use a gateway endpoint to connect to an Amazon S3 bucket from an EC2 instance, see Why can’t I connect to an S3 bucket using a gateway VPC endpoint.

An interface endpoint is a network interface in your subnet that serves as an endpoint for communicating with the specified service. You can specify the subnets in which to create an endpoint, and the security groups to associate with the endpoint network interface.

A GatewayLoadBalancer endpoint is a network interface in your subnet that serves an endpoint for communicating with a Gateway Load Balancer that you've configured as a VPC endpoint service.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON

{
  "Type" : "AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint",
  "Properties" : {
      "PolicyDocument" : Json,
      "PrivateDnsEnabled" : Boolean,
      "RouteTableIds" : [ String, ... ],
      "SecurityGroupIds" : [ String, ... ],
      "ServiceName" : String,
      "SubnetIds" : [ String, ... ],
      "VpcEndpointType" : String,
      "VpcId" : String
    }
}

YAML

Type: AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint
Properties: 
  PolicyDocument: Json
  PrivateDnsEnabled: Boolean
  RouteTableIds: 
    - String
  SecurityGroupIds: 
    - String
  ServiceName: String
  SubnetIds: 
    - String
  VpcEndpointType: String
  VpcId: String

Properties

PolicyDocument

(Interface and gateway endpoints) A policy to attach to the endpoint that controls access to the service. If this parameter is not specified, we attach a default policy that allows full access to the service.

For CloudFormation templates in YAML, you can provide the policy in JSON or YAML format. AWS CloudFormation converts YAML policies to JSON format before calling the API to create or modify the VPC endpoint.

Required: No

Type: Json

Update requires: No interruption

PrivateDnsEnabled

(Interface endpoint) Indicate whether to associate a private hosted zone with the specified VPC. The private hosted zone contains a record set for the default public DNS name for the service for the Region (for example, kinesis.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) which resolves to the private IP addresses of the endpoint network interfaces in the VPC. This enables you to make requests to the default public DNS name for the service instead of the public DNS names that are automatically generated by the VPC endpoint service.

To use a private hosted zone, you must set the following VPC attributes to true: enableDnsHostnames and enableDnsSupport.

Default: false

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

RouteTableIds

(Gateway endpoint) One or more route table IDs.

Required: No

Type: List of String

Update requires: No interruption

SecurityGroupIds

(Interface endpoint) The ID of one or more security groups to associate with the endpoint network interface.

Required: No

Type: List of String

Update requires: No interruption

ServiceName

The service name. To get a list of available services, use the DescribeVpcEndpointServices request, or get the name from the service provider.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

SubnetIds

(Interface and Gateway Load Balancer endpoints) The ID of one or more subnets in which to create an endpoint network interface. For a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint, you can specify one subnet only.

Required: Conditional

Type: List of String

Update requires: No interruption

VpcEndpointType

The type of endpoint.

Default: Gateway

Required: No

Type: String

Allowed values: Gateway | GatewayLoadBalancer | Interface

Update requires: Replacement

VpcId

The ID of the VPC in which the endpoint will be used.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

Return values

Ref

When you pass the logical ID of this resource to the intrinsic Ref function, Ref returns the ID of the VPC endpoint.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.

Fn::GetAtt

The Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function returns a value for a specified attribute of this type. The following are the available attributes and sample return values.

For more information about using the Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function, see Fn::GetAtt.

CreationTimestamp

The date and time the VPC endpoint was created. For example: Fri Sep 28 23:34:36 UTC 2018.

DnsEntries

(Interface endpoint) The DNS entries for the endpoint. Each entry is a combination of the hosted zone ID and the DNS name. The entries are ordered as follows: regional public DNS, zonal public DNS, private DNS, and wildcard DNS. This order is not enforced for AWS Marketplace services.

The following is an example. In the first entry, the hosted zone ID is Z1HUB23UULQXV and the DNS name is vpce-01abc23456de78f9g-12abccd3.ec2.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com.

["Z1HUB23UULQXV:vpce-01abc23456de78f9g-12abccd3.ec2.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com", "Z1HUB23UULQXV:vpce-01abc23456de78f9g-12abccd3-us-east-1a.ec2.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com", "Z1C12344VYDITB0:ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com"]

If you update the PrivateDnsEnabled or SubnetIds properties, the DNS entries in the list will change.

NetworkInterfaceIds

(Interface endpoint) One or more network interface IDs. If you update the PrivateDnsEnabled or SubnetIds properties, the items in this list might change.

Examples

VPC endpoint

The following example specifies a VPC endpoint that allows only the s3:GetObject action on the examplebucket bucket. Traffic to S3 within subnets that are associated with the routetableA and routetableB route tables is automatically routed through the VPC endpoint.

JSON

{
   "S3Endpoint": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint",
	  "Properties": {
         "PolicyDocument": {
            "Version": "2012-10-17",
            "Statement": [{
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Principal": "*",
               "Action": ["s3:GetObject"],
               "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::examplebucket/*"]
            }]
         },
         "RouteTableIds": [{"Ref": "routetableA"}, {"Ref": "routetableB"}],
         "ServiceName": {"Fn::Sub": "com.amazonaws.${AWS::Region}.s3"},
         "VpcId": {"Ref": "VPCID"}
      }
   }
}

YAML

S3Endpoint:
  Type: 'AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint'
  Properties:
    PolicyDocument:
      Version: 2012-10-17
      Statement:
        - Effect: Allow
          Principal: '*'
          Action:
            - 's3:GetObject'
          Resource:
            - 'arn:aws:s3:::examplebucket/*'
    RouteTableIds:
      - !Ref routetableA
      - !Ref routetableB
    ServiceName: !Sub 'com.amazonaws.${AWS::Region}.s3'
    VpcId: !Ref VPCID