Resource attributes supported by AWS SAM

Resource attributes are attributes that you can add to AWS SAM and AWS CloudFormation resources to control additional behaviors and relationships. For more information about resource attributes, see Resource Attribute Reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

AWS SAM support a subset of resource attributes that are defined by AWS CloudFormation. Of the supported resource attributes, some are copied to only the base generated AWS CloudFormation resource of the corresponding AWS SAM resource, and some are copied to all generated AWS CloudFormation resources resulting from the corresponding AWS SAM resource. For more information about AWS CloudFormation resources generated from corresponding AWS SAM resources, see Generated AWS CloudFormation resources for AWS SAM.

The following table summarizes resource attribute support by AWS SAM, subject to the Exceptions listed below.

Resource attributes	Destination generated resource(s)
DependsOn Metadata 1, 2	Base AWS CloudFormation generated resource only. For information about the mapping between AWS SAM resources and base AWS CloudFormation resources, see Generated AWS CloudFormation resource scenarios.
Condition DeletionPolicy UpdateReplacePolicy	All generated AWS CloudFormation resources from the corresponding AWS SAM resource. For information about scenarios for generated AWS CloudFormation resources, see Generated AWS CloudFormation resource scenarios.

Notes:

1. For more information about using the Metadata resource attribute with the AWS::Serverless::Function resource type, see Building Lambda functions with custom runtimes in AWS SAM.

2. For more information about using the Metadata resource attribute with the AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion resource type, see Building Lambda layers in AWS SAM.

Exceptions

There are a number of exceptions to the resource attribute rules described previously:

• For AWS::Lambda::LayerVersion, the AWS SAM-only custom field RetentionPolicy sets the DeletionPolicy for the generated AWS CloudFormation resources. This has a higher precedence than DeletionPolicy itself. If neither is set, then by default DeletionPolicy is set to Retain.

• For AWS::Lambda::Version, if DeletionPolicy is not specified, the default is Retain.

• For the scenario where DeploymentPreferences is specified for a serverless function, resource attributes are not copied to the following generated AWS CloudFormation resources:

  • AWS::CodeDeploy::Application

  • AWS::CodeDeploy::DeploymentGroup

  • The AWS::IAM::Role named CodeDeployServiceRole that is created for this scenario

• If your AWS SAM template contains multiple functions with API event sources that are implicitly created, then the functions will share the generated AWS::ApiGateway::RestApi resource. In this scenario, if the functions have different resource attributes, then for the generated AWS::ApiGateway::RestApi resource, AWS SAM copies the resource attributes according to the following prioritized lists:

  • UpdateReplacePolicy:

    1. Retain

    2. Snapshot

    3. Delete

  • DeletionPolicy:

    1. Retain

    2. Delete