Creating Security Hub resources with AWS CloudFormation
AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS CloudFormation, which is a service that helps you 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 automation rules), and AWS CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.
When you use AWS CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your Security Hub resources consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions.
Security Hub and AWS CloudFormation templates
To provision and configure resources for Security Hub and related services, you must understand how AWS CloudFormation templates work. Templates are text files in JSON or YAML format. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your AWS CloudFormation stacks.
If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use AWS CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with AWS CloudFormation templates. For more information, see What is AWS CloudFormation Designer? in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
You can create AWS CloudFormation templates for the following types of Security Hub resources:
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Enabling Security Hub
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Designating the delegated Security Hub administrator for an organization
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Enabling a security standard
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Creating a custom insight
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Creating an automation rule
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Subscribing to a third-party product integration
For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for resources, see the AWS Security Hub resource type reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Learn more about AWS CloudFormation
To learn more about AWS CloudFormation, see the following resources:
