AWS::Serverless::Application

Embeds a serverless application from the AWS Serverless Application Repository or from an Amazon S3 bucket as a nested application. Nested applications are deployed as nested AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resources, which can contain multiple other resources including other AWS::Serverless::Application resources.

Note

When you deploy to AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM transforms your AWS SAM resources into AWS CloudFormation resources. For more information, see Generated AWS CloudFormation resources for AWS SAM.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) template, use the following syntax.

YAML

Type: AWS::Serverless::Application
Properties:
  Location: String | ApplicationLocationObject
  NotificationARNs: List
  Parameters: Map
  Tags: Map
  TimeoutInMinutes: Integer

Properties

Location

Template URL, file path, or location object of a nested application.

If a template URL is provided, it must follow the format specified in the CloudFormation TemplateUrl documentation and contain a valid CloudFormation or SAM template. An ApplicationLocationObject can be used to specify an application that has been published to the AWS Serverless Application Repository.

If a local file path is provided, the template must go through the workflow that includes the sam deploy or sam package command, in order for the application to be transformed properly.

Type: String | ApplicationLocationObject

Required: Yes

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is similar to the TemplateURL property of an AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resource. The CloudFormation version does not take an ApplicationLocationObject to retrieve an application from the AWS Serverless Application Repository.

NotificationARNs

A list of existing Amazon SNS topics where notifications about stack events are sent.

Type: List

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the NotificationARNs property of an AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resource.

Parameters

Application parameter values.

Type: Map

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the Parameters property of an AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resource.

Tags

A map (string to string) that specifies the tags to be added to this application. Keys and values are limited to alphanumeric characters. Keys can be 1 to 127 Unicode characters in length and cannot be prefixed with aws:. Values can be 1 to 255 Unicode characters in length.

Type: Map

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is similar to the Tags property of an AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resource. The Tags property in SAM consists of Key:Value pairs; in CloudFormation it consists of a list of Tag objects. When the stack is created, SAM will automatically add a lambda:createdBy:SAM tag to this application. In addition, if this application is from the AWS Serverless Application Repository, then SAM will also automatically the two additional tags serverlessrepo:applicationId:ApplicationId and serverlessrepo:semanticVersion:SemanticVersion.

TimeoutInMinutes

The length of time, in minutes, that AWS CloudFormation waits for the nested stack to reach the CREATE_COMPLETE state. The default is no timeout. When AWS CloudFormation detects that the nested stack has reached the CREATE_COMPLETE state, it marks the nested stack resource as CREATE_COMPLETE in the parent stack and resumes creating the parent stack. If the timeout period expires before the nested stack reaches CREATE_COMPLETE, AWS CloudFormation marks the nested stack as failed and rolls back both the nested stack and parent stack.

Type: Integer

Required: No

AWS CloudFormation compatibility: This property is passed directly to the TimeoutInMinutes property of an AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resource.

Return Values

Ref

When the logical ID of this resource is provided to the Ref intrinsic function, it returns the resource name of the underlying AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resource.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Fn::GetAtt

Fn::GetAtt 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 Fn::GetAtt, see Fn::GetAtt in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Outputs.ApplicationOutputName

The value of the stack output with name ApplicationOutputName.

Examples

SAR Application

Application that uses a template from the Serverless Application Repository

YAML

Type: AWS::Serverless::Application
Properties:
  Location:
    ApplicationId: 'arn:aws:serverlessrepo:us-east-1:012345678901:applications/my-application'
    SemanticVersion: 1.0.0
  Parameters:
    StringParameter: parameter-value
    IntegerParameter: 2

Normal-Application

Application from an S3 url

YAML

Type: AWS::Serverless::Application
Properties:
  Location: https://s3.amazonaws.com/amzn-s3-demo-bucket/template.yaml