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Amazon Web Services CloudFormation is a JSON- or YAML-based templating system that can be used to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. You can think of it as 'Infrastructure-as-code'.

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Seeking Expert Advice on Terraform Deployment Cleanup

I've been successfully using Terraform for various deployments, managing to create multiple environments for different clients using a single Jenkins job. However, I've hit a roadblock when it comes ...
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Cannot disable MultiAZ on RDS instance using CloudFormation

I have deployed an instance of a RDS PostgreSQL database with MultiAZ enabled, using CloudFormation. When I try to remove MultiAZ I get the following error from CloudFormation: CloudFormation cannot ...
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Using Ubuntu 22.04 in EC2 via CloudFormation, why does cfn-hup never trigger?

Amazon's documentation includes extensive examples of using cfn-hup to automate updates of instances provisioned via CloudFormation. For one of many examples, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/...
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AWS Cloudformation template - user pool app client hosted ui login url?

Is there a way to retrieve the login page url for a cognito user pool app client from the cloudformation template? I currently have two projects: one for a spa webapp end one for the aws stack to host ...
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CloudFront distribution can't access S3 bucket for website static assets

The problem I'm trying to deploy an S3 bucket hosting my static website asset and a cloudfront distribution to access it, but the distribution still return a bare xml file for an 'access denied' error:...
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How can I create an ecs service for my deploy

I’m learning CI/CD pipelines and I’ve come up with a question. I have a CloudFormation file that creates some static resources for my app (ECR repository, ECS Cluster and some roles) When creating my ...
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How to make my ECS Task pull my ECR image

I am trying to create a ECS task and be able to access and pull from ECR, but I am getting an error. How can I resolve this issue? Raw error: Cannotpullcontainererror: pull image manifest has been ...
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What defines the AWS ECS task re-creation timeout

I have an AWS ECS Service with 2 REPLICA tasks in it. When I manually stop one of the tasks, the new one is created in almost exactly 5 minutes. Similar 5 minute timeout happens when one or more tasks ...
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AWS SAM - cannot create stack with api gateway using stage variable for invoked lambda version

Ok, previous question about using different lambda versions on different stages here: AWS - lambda versions to different gateway stages? Now I'm trying to put it all together using AWS SAM cli but ...
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How to create EKS cluster with VPC CNI addon via CloudFormation?

I create a EKS cluster (1.24) via cloudformation, it works fine without a CNI plugin but fails when I add vpc-cni addon: AddonCNI: Type: 'AWS::EKS::Addon' Properties: AddonName: vpc-...
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AWS CloudFormation cannot create a db.t2.micro instance in the specified AvailabilityZone

I have a Database and a DBSecurityGroup inside a subnet and a VPC. but whenever I try to launch the stack, I get this error: Database CREATE_FAILED Resource handler returned message: "Cannot ...
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Resource handler returned message: "The CIDR '10.0.1.0/22' is invalid

I'm getting this error while trying to create a VPC with a Subnet in CloudFormation. Subnet CREATE_FAILED Resource handler returned message: "The CIDR '10.0.1.0/22' is invalid. (Service: Ec2, ...
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Cloud formation: when is it safe to delete templates / stacks?

How do I know when it's safe to delete a cloud formation template? Is there a way to list the resources that will be deleted when a template is deleted? It is just the resources listed in the ...
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Assign elastic ip address to ec2 fleet instances

I am creating multiple EC2 instances using EC2 Fleet service in cloudformation, I want to assign elastic IP addresses to newly created instances from EC2 Fleet, below is my template, can anyone help ...
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AWS EC2 instance cannot see another instance on a specific port

I have created two EC2 instances using CloudFormation - one for the Apache web-server, another one for the PostgreSQL DB. For some reason the web-server cannot telnet into the DB instance on port 5432 ...
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selecting vCPU harware family while creating VMs on AWS or Azure or Google compute

Do the AWS or Azure or Google compute allow user to select vCPU architecture/Family while creating a VM? Is that possible if I have to specifically create a VM with Xeon family processor and another ...
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AWS CloudFormation - two network interfaces, one with EIP

I'm an AWS newbie. Trying to create an EC2 Instance with two network interfaces, one should be public and the other private. Here is what I've tried in my YAML template: Create a VPC with two subnets ...
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CloudFormation - Updating the SecurityGroupIds of an ec2 instance it recreates the instance instead of modifying the same

I created ec2 instance with cloudformation. When I try to update the securitygroup of the instance in the same template , cloudformation recreates the instance instead of modifying the same (Like in ...
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How to apply default policies to cloudformation or terraform in aws?

With terraform or cloudformation, we can apply individual permissions while creating a policy. But how to select default predefined policies like AWSRDSReadyOnlyAccess, like these to the terraform ...
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How to diagnose/fix CloudFormation/autoscaling SSL errors on file download

I have an autoscaling group that was created by AWS CloudFormation. It runs on Amazon Linux 2. Last week, it was working fine. Now, new instances throw a "certificate has expired" error when ...
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Reference existing resources in cloud formation

Is there a way to reference an existing resource in cloudformation. I am looking for something similar to terraform’s datasource facility where I can find a resource by tag, etc. and then use a ...
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How do I use AWS SAM to deploy an AWS API Gateway and AWS Java Lambda including POST caching and disabling logging

How do I deploy a lambda Java function with an API gateway REST interface including caching POST methods using AWS Serverless Application Model?
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How to Apply Egress rules to Default Security Group - AWS

I would like to apply port 443 outbound rule to the 'Default' security group. It worked by creating a dedicated block OutboundRule (which is commented out). Instead of creating a new block, I want to ...
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AWS CloudFormation template - dynamically add multiple instances of the same object

I'm trying to create a CloudFormation template that'll include a ConfigurationAggregator. In order to aggregate data from other regions, the same template file should also define an object (one or ...
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AWS CloudFormation template with ConfigRule

I'm new to AWS but already tried looking everywhere for this, and couldn't find a proper answer. My aim is to create a CloudFormation template which forms a new stack, without assuming that AWS Config ...
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Configure AWS CloudFront to send custom query params to origin

Is it possible to configure my AWS CloudFront distribution to append to the request a custom query param (e.g a private key) before sending it to the origin? For example, the front end is calling *....
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AWS Cloudformation Template error: every Ref object must have a single String value

SNSTopic Type: 'AWS::SNS'...... SNSTopic2 Type: 'AWS::SNS'....... EventRule: Type: 'AWS::Events::Rule' Properties: Name: !Ref EventRuleName Description: State: ...
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Best way to install cfn-bootstrap utilities on CentOS 8

I'm working on a CentOS 8 based instance/launch configuration in AWS and would like to use cfn-init to manage some of the setup/provisioning steps. However, I'm finding that the provided RPM does not ...
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Autoscaling - lifecylehook implementation

I'm trying to implement my first ASG with a lifecycle hook and I am having this issue: LifecycleHandlerFunction: Encountered unsupported property Role The following resource(s) failed to create: [...
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Modify AWS Lambda function inside CloudFormation stack

I've launched this stack and needed to update it's Lamdba function, I've made some amendments and hit deploy, a new version of function was saved, however Lambda application still refers to the first ...
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CloudFormation: How to get a list of key pairs in a given region

I have a very simple CF template that creates an EC2 instance. The key pair is specified as a parameter. I would like the list of possible key pairs to be populated automatically. Resources: ...
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Will deploying an AWS quick start in the same tenant conflict with an existing installation?

I do have only one AWS tenant. There is an application (Atlassian Jira + Confluence) which is running productively in this tenant. Now I want to test a new version of this AWS QuickStart. If I will ...
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How to dump AWS resource definitions in CloudFormation format?

I have read through the AWS Documentation and also this summarizing blog article here. The TL;DR is that CloudFormation "import" requires you to meticulously define, down to the last detail, ...
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How to emit IPv6 address of EC2 instance in the ouputs of a cloudformation stack?

I have AWS cloudformation stacks with ec2 instances that are entirely isolated from external traffic. They seldom need to be directly accessed. For cases when they do need to be accessed, I have a ...
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AWS CloudFormation - Creating Layer Version and Function that uses layer

I have a Cloudformation template that currently looks roughly like the following. Resources: MyLayer: Type: AWS::Lambda::LayerVersion Properties: CompatibleRuntimes: - nodejs12....
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How can I create a Permission that is limited to just one TargetGroup?

How can I create a Permission (that grants permission to invoke a certain lambda function) that is limited to just one TargetGroup? It might sound simple but the problem has a couple of different ...
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S3 – Connection Aborted / Broken Pipe when uploading to one bucket's presigned URLs, but other buckets are fine

I have an S3 bucket in a Cloudformation stack that holds artifacts. A lambda function in the same stack generates a presigned URL for clients to upload files into the bucket. I already had the code ...
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"Resource is not in the state changeSetCreateComplete" when deploying to AWS with CloudFormation from Azure DevOps

I'm deploying an application to AWS using the CloudFormation plugin for Azure DevOps. It works really well, and will automatically update things that need changing, leaving other things alone. I've ...
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AWS CloudFormation - can I use Sub inside GetAtt?

I'm trying to reference a security group inside a CloudFormation template. the name of the group is !Sub '${EnvironmentName}-SG-Private, where EnvironmentName is a template parameter. However, the ...
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Received 0 SUCCESS signal(s) out of 1. Unable to satisfy 100% MinSuccessfulInstancesPercent requirement

I am running this template in cloud formation to create auto scaling in ubuntu-18.04 machine and it will rollback the all instances automatically that is created by this template and giving such error ...
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CWAgent Disk Space Alarms

I'm trying to implement an alarm(in Cloudformation) for disk space free using metrics from the Cloudwatch agent and I'm having issues with devices shuffling DeviceID. I encountered this earlier when ...
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Set CPU options on Elastic Beanstalk environment via Cloud Formation

I have an Elastic Beanstalk worker app that is doing some memory-intensive single-threaded computation. All the available instance types that meet my memory requirements (16 Gb) have 2+ vCPUs, so I ...
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What's the proper way to initially deploy a CloudFormation stack for testing?

I'm writing my first CF stacks and I'm running into failed deploys on the first try of course because I don't know the syntax and available parameters yet fully. I am validating my json and the ...
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Create EC2 Instances and Volumes Using CloudFormation

I'm trying to use CloudFormation to deploy two Windows Server 2019 EC2 instances and also attach a new volume to each instance (two instances, two volumes total). I get the following error when I ...
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Cloudformation deploy EC2 instance to same IP

I have a application stack that is deployed with cloud formation. It contains two auto scaling groups and one EC2 instance on its own. How do I configure the EC2 instance or cloud formation to ...
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Cloudformation Reuse EBS Volume

I am using cloudformation to manage my infra, and I am facing an issue, if i want to change instance type of an instance, a new instance will be launched with new EBS volume, is there any way to ...
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How to create an SSL certificate for an AWS application load balancer without a domain

I am trying to create a Cloudformation stack that can be provisioned by anybody (basically I want to share it either in the marketplace, or make it public in GitHub), which includes a set of EC2 ...
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aws blockchain template received failure signal with uniqueid +failed to create ec2 instance for dev

I am learning about How to Deploy Hyperledger Fabric on AWS with Blockchain Templates. from this tutorial https://medium.com/faun/how-to-deploy-hyperledger-fabric-on-aws-with-blockchain-templates-...
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How to create a Sandbox Environment in AWS?

I am trying to create a Sandbox playground in AWS for Users to practice some resources for 30min, after that, all resources should be deleted and account temporary account should also be deleted. I ...
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Discover private DNS of load balancers in Cloudformation

This is a pretty common issue but I am having trouble finding a proper answer to how to go about this. I have two apps, which will run on EC2s. These apps will be in their separate autoscaling groups,...
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