Create Lightsail resources with AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Lightsail is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a service that helps you to model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want (such as instances and disks), and CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.
When you use CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your Lightsail resources consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions.
Lightsail and CloudFormation templates
To provision and configure resources for Lightsail and related services, you must understand CloudFormation templates. Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with CloudFormation templates. For more information, see What is CloudFormation Designer? in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Lightsail supports creating instances and disks in AWS CloudFormation. For more information, see the Lightsail resource type reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Learn more about CloudFormation
To learn more about CloudFormation, see the following resources:
