Services

The service sample templates show you how you can use AWS CloudFormation with other AWS services.

Auto Scaling

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Load-based auto scaling	Creates an Auto Scaling group with scaling policies that are based on CPU usage in order to start and stop Amazon EC2 instances, which span multiple Availability Zones. This template also uses Auto Scaling notifications so that you are emailed when scaling events occur.	View	View in Designer
Time-based auto scaling (scheduled actions)	Creates an Auto Scaling group with recurring schedules that change the minimum and maximum number of Amazon EC2 instances in the group.	View	View in Designer
Auto Scaling group with an update policy	Creates an Auto Scaling group with an update policy that keeps 2 instances running during a rolling update.	View	View in Designer

AWS Batch

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
AWS Batch "Hello World!"	Creates an AWS Batch compute environment, job queue, and job definition for a simple "Hello World" batch job. When the job is submitted, it echoes "hello world" and exits. You can modify the job definition to run your own Docker container and/or batch scripts.	View	View in Designer
AWS Batch High and Low Priority Job Queues	Creates a low priority job queue that is mapped to an Amazon EC2 Spot compute environment, and a high priority job queue that is mapped to an On-demand compute environment as well as the Spot compute environment. There are two job definitions: one to mimic a testing job definition, and another to mimic a high-importance application job (each job echoes its name and then exits). You can modify the job definition to run your own Docker container and/or batch scripts.	View	View in Designer

AWS Config

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
AWS Config delivery channel and rules	Creates an Amazon EC2 volume and an AWS Config rules that check if all Amazon EC2 volumes have the required tag and enable auto I/O.	View	View in Designer

Amazon DocumentDB

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Amazon DocumentDB Cluster	Creates a Amazon DocumentDB cluster and primary instance.	View	View in Designer

Amazon DynamoDB

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
DynamoDB table	Creates a simple DynamoDB table.	View	View in Designer
DynamoDB with secondary indexes	Creates a DynamoDB table with a global and local secondary index.	View	View in Designer

Amazon EC2

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Amazon EC2 instance in a security group	Creates an Amazon EC2 instance in an Amazon EC2 security group.	View	View in Designer
Amazon EC2 instance with an Elastic IP address	Creates an Amazon EC2 instance and associates an Elastic IP address with the instance.	View	View in Designer
Amazon EC2 instance with an ephemeral drive	Creates an Amazon EC2 instance with an ephemeral drive by using a block device mapping.	View	View in Designer

Amazon ElastiCache

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
ElastiCache Memcached	Creates an ElastiCache cache cluster with the Memcached engine and deploys a sample PHP application that connects to the cache cluster.	View	View in Designer
ElastiCache Redis	Creates an ElastiCache cache cluster with the Redis engine and deploys a sample PHP application that connects to the cache cluster.	View	View in Designer

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Elastic Beanstalk sample application with a database	Creates an Elastic Beanstalk that connects to an Amazon RDS database instance.	View	View in Designer
Elastic Beanstalk Node.js sample application	Creates a sample Elastic Beanstalk Node.js application.	View	View in Designer
Elastic Beanstalk application in a Amazon Virtual Private Cloud	Creates an Elastic Beanstalk environment in a VPC.	View	View in Designer

Elastic Load Balancing

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Load-balanced Auto Scaling group	Creates an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer and an Auto Scaling group that receives traffic only from the load balancer.	View	View in Designer
Load-balanced website with sticky sessions	Creates a load-balanced sample website that ensures all requests coming from a user during a session are sent to the same application instance.	View	View in Designer
Load balancer with connection draining and saved access logs	Creates an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer that completes all in-flight requests to deregistered or unhealthy instances. The load balancer also sends access logs to an Amazon S3 bucket.	View	View in Designer
Load-balanced Auto Scaling group with an update policy and Elastic Load Balancing health check	Creates a cross-zone Elastic Load Balancing load balancer and an Auto Scaling group with an update policy that keeps at least two instances running while performing a rolling update. The update proceeds only when the Elastic Load Balancing health check detects that the updated instances are in service.	View	View in Designer

AWS Identity and Access Management

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
IAM users and groups	Creates multiple IAM users and groups with different policies.	View	View in Designer

AWS OpsWorks

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Basic AWS OpsWorks stack	Creates an AWS OpsWorks stack, layer, instances and associated resources to run a PHP application.	View	View in Designer
Load-balanced AWS OpsWorks stack in a Amazon VPC	Creates an AWS OpsWorks stack with a load-balanced application that runs inside a VPC.	View	View in Designer

Amazon Relational Database Service

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Amazon RDS DB instance with provisioned IOPs	Creates an Amazon RDS database instance with provisioned IOPs.	View	View in Designer
Amazon RDS DB instance with a read replica	Creates an Amazon RDS database instance with a read replica.	View	View in Designer
Amazon RDS DB instance with a deletion policy	Creates an Amazon RDS database instance with a deletion policy that specifies Amazon RDS to take a snapshot of the database before deleting it.	View	View in Designer
Amazon RDS DB instance with a database parameter group	Creates an Amazon RDS database instance with a database parameter group.	View	View in Designer

Amazon Redshift

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Basic Amazon Redshift cluster	Creates an Amazon Redshift cluster.	View	View in Designer
Amazon Redshift cluster in an Amazon VPC	Creates an Amazon Redshift cluster in a VPC.	View	View in Designer

Amazon Route 53

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Route 53 A record	Creates an Route 53 A record that maps to the public IP address of an Amazon EC2 instance.	View	View in Designer
Route 53 CNAME record	Creates an Route 53 CNAME record.	View	View in Designer
Route 53 weighted records	Creates Route 53 weighted CNAME records.	View	View in Designer

Amazon Simple Storage Service

Template name	Description	View	View in Designer	Launch
Amazon S3 bucket with a deletion policy	Creates a publicly accessible Amazon S3 bucket that is configured for website access. The bucket is retained even if the stack is deleted.	View	View in Designer
Amazon S3 website	Creates a website hosted on Amazon S3 with a custom DNS name.	View	View in Designer

Amazon Simple Queue Service

Template name	Description	View	View in designer	Launch
Amazon SQS queue with Amazon CloudWatch alarms	Creates an Amazon SQS queue with CloudWatch alarms that monitor the queue depth.	View	View in designer
Amazon Simple Notification Service topic that sends messages to Amazon SQS queues	Creates an Amazon SNS topic that can send messages to two Amazon SQS queues and two IAM users: one that has permission to publish to the topic and another that has permission to read messages from the queues.	View	View in designer

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Template name	Description	View	View in designer	Launch
A single Amazon EC2 in an Amazon VPC	Creates a VPC and adds an Amazon EC2 instance with an Elastic IP address and a security group.	View	View in designer
Amazon VPC with static routing to an existing VPN	Creates a private subnet with a VPN connection that uses static routing to an existing VPN endpoint.	View	View in designer
Autoscaling and load-balancing website in an Amazon VPC	Creates a load balancing, auto scaling sample website in an existing VPC.	View	View in designer
Amazon VPC with DNS and public IP addresses	Creates a VPC with DNS support and public IP addresses enabled.	View	View in designer
Publicly accessible Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group	Creates a load balancing, autoscaling group with instances that are directly accessible from the Internet.	View	View in designer
Amazon EC2 with multiple dynamic IP addresses in an Amazon VPC	Creates an Amazon EC2 instance with multiple dynamic IP addresses in a VPC.	View	View in designer
Amazon EC2 with multiple static IP addresses in an Amazon VPC	Creates an Amazon EC2 instance with multiple static IP addresses in a VPC.	View	View in designer