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Setting the Version will often lead to production pain and abnormal Elastic Beanstalk environment behavior for modern applications. No where in AWS docs is there a detailed history of tier versions and their solution stack version compatibility. It is advised to add a note like the following:
When attempting to automate the configuration of Cognito User Pools with Cloudformation, the "verification type" radio button within does not seem to be a documented configuration. How do you flip this radio button?
Feb 7, 2019 update shows the below descriptions but they need to be reversed as InstanceAttributes is a property of AWS::ServiceDiscovery::Instance and DNSConfig is a property of AWS::ServiceDiscovery::Service.
The following resources were updated: AWS::ServiceDiscovery::Instance and AWS::ServiceDiscovery::Service.
AWS::ServiceDiscovery::Instance
The DNSConfig property is no longer required.
An update to the HealthCheckCustomConfig property now requires replacement.
AWS::ServiceDiscovery::Service
The InstanceAttributes property now takes a String map value.
Hi
I dont know if i am posting this on the correct forum - but I'm hoping someone here can guide me to the right direction.
As far as the documentation goes for setting up a Cognito UserPool using the AWS::Cognito::UserPool Type - there is nowhere to configure the UserPool to Require MFA using only the TOTP method
When setting the MfaConfiguration attribute to "ON" - cloudformation errors out with a message to the sound of SMSconfiguration and Phone number verification is required when MFAConfiguration is set to ON or OPTIONAL
I would like to enable MFA using only TOTP method.
PS: This is possible by using the Web console
Thanks
Tags:
is improperly indented in the YAML syntax at the top of the page, but it is not part of the source on Github.
Typo: This this policy grants s3::Get* and s3:List* permissions to all buckets.
Invalid: s3::Get*
Valid: s3:Get*
It took us a while to figure out "classification" was stored in this property or that we could even put this property here.
I have defined the following resources:
"ATargetGroup":{
"Type" : "AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::TargetGroup",
"Properties" : {
"HealthCheckIntervalSeconds" : 30,
"HealthCheckPath" : "/healthcheck",
"HealthCheckPort" : 80,
"HealthCheckProtocol" : "HTTP",
"HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds" : 5,
"HealthyThresholdCount" : 5,
"Matcher" : {"HttpCode" : "200"},
"Name" : "a-http-tg",
"Port" : 80,
"Protocol" : "HTTP",
"TargetGroupAttributes" : [{"Key" : "deregistration_delay.timeout_seconds", "Value" : 10}],
"TargetType":"instance",
"Targets" : [{"Id":{"Ref":"instance1a"}, "Port" : 80}, {"Id":{"Ref":"instance1b"}, "Port" : 80}],
"UnhealthyThresholdCount" : 3,
"VpcId": {"Ref": "aVpc"}
}
},
"instance1a": {
"Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
"Properties": {
"DisableApiTermination": "false",
"InstanceInitiatedShutdownBehavior": "stop",
"ImageId": "ami-xxx",
"InstanceType": "t2.micro",
"KeyName": "AKeyPair",
"Monitoring": "false",
"Tags": [{"Key": "Name","Value": "ec2-1a"}],
"NetworkInterfaces": [
{
"DeleteOnTermination": "true",
"Description": "Primary network interface",
"DeviceIndex": 0,
"SubnetId": {"Ref": "SubNet1A"},
"PrivateIpAddresses": [{"PrivateIpAddress": "10.10.1.251","Primary": "true"}],
"GroupSet": [{"Ref": "Ec21aSg"}],
"AssociatePublicIpAddress": "true"
}
]
}
},
"instance1b": {
"Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
"Properties": {
"DisableApiTermination": "false",
"InstanceInitiatedShutdownBehavior": "stop",
"ImageId": "ami-xxx",
"InstanceType": "t2.micro",
"KeyName": "AKeyPair",
"Monitoring": "false",
"Tags": [{"Key": "Name","Value": "ec2-1b"}],
"NetworkInterfaces": [
{
"DeleteOnTermination": "true",
"Description": "Primary network interface",
"DeviceIndex": 0,
"SubnetId": {"Ref": "SubNet1b"},
"PrivateIpAddresses": [{"PrivateIpAddress": "10.10.2.32","Primary": "true"}],
"GroupSet": [{"Ref": "Ec21bSg"}],
"AssociatePublicIpAddress": "true"
}
]
}
}
According to the Doc: "Targets" : [{"Id":{"Ref":"instance1a"}, "Port" : 80}, {"Id":{"Ref":"instance1b"}, "Port" : 80}] will define the 2 ec2 instances as the targets in this target group.
Problem for me is, I got an error saying "instance1a" is an invalid type for this reference...
I am following the examples from the Doc here, but am I doing something wrong?
I am using AWS ToolKit (Version 1.14.4.0) for Visual Studio 2017.
Could it be that the Doc is incorrect? Or is it an issue in Aws ToolKit template intelligence?
The second CodeBuild sample JSON template defines a source of CODEPIPELINE and "BadgeEnabled": "true". However, trying to launch a stack with this combination of properties fails with the error:
Build badges are not supported for CodePipeline source (Service: AWSCodeBuild; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidInputException; Request ID: ... )
I'm discoveing aws SAM and CloudFormation, and it seems there is one big thing missing in the reference API documentation : the default values. i.e. the value one parameter is given when optional and not provided.
an example in https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide/blob/master/doc_source/aws-properties-apigateway-stage-methodsetting.md:
It tells that the CachingEnabled is optional, but does not tell if it set to trueor false if I don't put it in my template.
The latest doc updates refers to StreamEncryption as a Required property. Is that indeed the case? We recently tried to create a Kinesis Stream without this property set, and it went through fine. Can someone please clarify this?
Thanks.
The docs say that the default action is CONTINUE, though I've just deployed a stack withouth specifying it and it went with ABANDON
Hi,
I'm trying to configure an elastic load balancer with multiple certificates through Cloudformation by using the property SSLCertificateArns, but I haven't found any example that shows the syntax to indicate more than one certificate.
How I can achieve this case?
Thanks.
Hello,
I've spotted a typo on the yaml syntax for the AutoScalingGroup having an extra quote on the LaunchTemplate parameter. However I cannot find it on the git to change it myself, otherwise I would have.
LaunchTemplate" : LaunchTemplateSpecification
Regards,
Joseph
Per the cloudformation specification files the Tags properties are not required. However, Endpoint and EndpointConfig documentation lists Tags as required.
Hello,
seems to have some missing information, which is in the github pages:
Questions:
Why is there a discrepancy?
Can we assume the github version is the source of truth?
How often are the website /latest docs updated?
Thanks!
AWS::ECS::Cluster, AWS::ECS::Service, and AWS::ECS::TaskDefinitions should now support TagResource and UntagResource API actions, but these properties are neither reflected in the documentation nor seem to be supported by CloudFormation yet.
Credit to @robertd for the discovery.
Thank you for introducing the MixedInstancesPolicy property in AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup! It's going to make the use of spot instances much easier.
From the docs, it looks like specifying this property means that you lose the opportunity to specify the security group associated with the AutoScalingGroup, since the security group property is added to AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup through the LaunchConfiguration property, and one can only specify one of LaunchConfiguration, MixedInstancesPolicy or LaunchTemplate.
Please clarify how to specify a custom security group, when using this property.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/API_CreateService.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-ecs-service.html#cfn-ecs-service-deploymentconfiguration
Can we add support for "DeploymentController"? See the links above for more clarification. The ECS api supports this attribute when creating a service. However, Cloudformation does not.
On the AWS::Cognito::UserPoolClient page 1 it lists available return values for the GetAtt function as ClientSecret and Name. Neither of these values work, though.
When !GetAtt 'UserPoolClient.Name' is added to the Outputs section of a template it just returns "Name attribute not supported at this time, please use the CLI or Console to retrieve this value" as the value. Same thing for ClientSecret.
I believe the docs should be updated to remove these unsupported GetAtt calls.
The Windows Server "Roles and Features" template has the following problems:
In short, the template is currently useless.
AWS::CloudFormation::Authentication mechanism can not be used when authenticating to S3 in a bucket located in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) region. This is because that region only supports authentication with AWS4-HMAC-SHA256.
Please clarify this in the documentation or give examples how to use it when working in that region.
It looks like the Fn::Cidr docs is currently in a mix of being sparse and inaccurate.
The docs says the sizeMask argument is optional, it is actually required. The error message the console gives when the sizeMask argument isn't included also says it's optional, despite the fact it's required.
Secondly, the explanation for the sizeMask argument is pretty unclear or complicated, so I think it should be expanded on, especially considering it is required. I would initially assume it refers to the number after the slash in a CIDR block (i.e. the 24 in 192.168.1.0/24) as I and a couple of other engineers did, but it actually refers to the number of bits to keep free/available in the CIDR block (i.e. 32 - sizeMask = the number after the slash in a CIDR range, so to make the CIDR range 192.168.1.0/24 you set sizeMask to 8). This means 2^sizeMask free IPs in the CIDR block generated function.
Ideally for me, the actual function would be changed to be simpler, but the docs should be updated in the meantime.
Cheers.
Service discovery is now supported in ECS. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-discovery.html
Although this document has not been updated yet, adding "ServiceRegistries" property in AWS::ECS::Service is working. The schema of this property is an array of single key "RegistryArn" object.
For example:
Properties:
ServiceRegistries:
- RegistryArn: "arn:aws:servicediscovery:xxxxx:xxxxx:service/xxxxx"
I'm unable to provision a AWS ES Domain via CloudFormation because I need the node-to-node encryption feature enabled, and that can only be done at creation time.
There are few properties supported via API, but not in CloudFormation for a AWS::Elasticsearch::Domain:
NodeToNodeEncryptionOptionsLogPublishingOptionsCognitoOptionsIf I try to include
NodeToNodeEncryptionOptions:
Enabled: trueI get a CREATE_FAILED with the reason Encountered unsupported property NodeToNodeEncryptionOptions
The YAML in the example on doc_source/aws-resource-ask-skill.md is incorrect. AuthenticationConfiguration and VendorId are shown as nodes under MySkill when they should be nodes under Properties.
Current, incorrect YAML:
MySkill:
Type: "Alexa::ASK::Skill"
Properties:
SkillPackage:
S3Bucket: "my-skill-packages"
S3Key: "skillpackage.zip"
S3BucketRole: !GetAtt S3BucketReadRole.Arn
Overrides:
Manifest:
apis:
custom:
endpoint:
uri: !GetAtt SkillFunction.Arn
AuthenticationConfiguration:
ClientId: "amzn1.application-oa2-client.1234"
ClientSecret: "1234"
RefreshToken: "Atzr|1234"
VendorId: "1234"
Corrected YAML:
MySkill:
Type: "Alexa::ASK::Skill"
Properties:
SkillPackage:
S3Bucket: "my-skill-packages"
S3Key: "skillpackage.zip"
S3BucketRole: !GetAtt S3BucketReadRole.Arn
Overrides:
Manifest:
apis:
custom:
endpoint:
uri: !GetAtt SkillFunction.Arn
AuthenticationConfiguration:
ClientId: "amzn1.application-oa2-client.1234"
ClientSecret: "1234"
RefreshToken: "Atzr|1234"
VendorId: "1234"
In the page for Condition functions ( https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide/blob/master/doc_source/intrinsic-function-reference-conditions.md ), references to other conditions are shown as {"Condition": "MyConditionName"} and !Condition MyConditionName, but this function is not explicitly documented anywhere, nor is it mentioned on the main Conditions page ( https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide/blob/master/doc_source/conditions-section-structure.md )
Additionally, the section on resource attributes, which lists keys like CreationPolicy, doesn't mention the Condition key ( https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide/blob/master/doc_source/aws-product-attribute-reference.md ), and none those attributes or Condition are listed in the resource fields section of the template anatomy page on resources ( https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide/blob/master/doc_source/resources-section-structure.md )
The description for ReplicationTaskIdentifier appears to be incorrect. It says "The ARN string that uniquely identifies the endpoint.", which is the same as the description for TargetEndpointArn.
Current Documentation:
Info The URL of the CloudFormation template in Amazon S3. Specify the URL in JSON format as follows:
"LoadTemplateFromURL": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cf-templates-ozkq9d3hgiq2-us-east-1/..."
The above is confusing as we do not know if we it needs to be a JSON string or a JSON object. More importantly, it throws an "Internal Failure" when used the wrong way.
Suggested:
"ProvisioningArtifactParameters": [
{
"Info": {
"LoadTemplateFromURL": "https://s3-<region>.amazonaws.com/..."
}
}
]Is it possible to use schedulingStrategy feature in cloudformation template - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs_services.html#service_scheduler
Neither Instance or Cluster RDS resources seem to support enabling Logging (e.g. Slow Query logs, Access logs) for instances via CloudFormation.
One of the things that is really nice about terraform is seeing the Examples section as
soon as I open the page:
https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/instance.html
I think that moving the examples to the begging would make it more welcoming for newcomers.
Please put a NOTE in the following resource property that when creating networking interfaces, security groups needs to specified using the Groups property:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-launchtemplate-launchtemplatedata.html#cfn-ec2-launchtemplate-launchtemplatedata-securitygroupids
it says "The name can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Za-z0-9)."
But in examples, there's "us-east-1" as attribute name
And I tried myself, cloudFormation would not allow "-" in mapping except 1st 2nd level
Would love to have clarification of this.
There is information missing as to what are the value inputs expected in the SupportedLoginProviders field.
String:String # No indication what the left or right side of the string should be in order for this to work.
Where can I find some sample CFN templates that has the identity providers? Or do I need to do this in the console once I've gotten this far?
doc_source/aws-resource-codedeploy-application.md:
Type: "AWS::CodeDeploy::Application"
Properties:
ApplicationName: String
ComputePlatform: String
ComputePlatform should specify the valid values.
Hi,
Documentation: https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide/blob/master/doc_so...
Resource Type: AWS::Batch::JobDefinition
It seems that the "AWS::Batch::JobDefinition" resource type already supports the underlying Batch JobDefinition "Timeout" [1] property declaration in CloudFormation, but its documentation is not updated. Could you please include it?
Reference:
[1] - Timeout:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/batch/latest/userguide/job_definition_parameter...
=== sample ===
Resources:
JobDefinition:
Type: 'AWS::Batch::JobDefinition'
Properties:
Type: container
JobDefinitionName: nvidia-smi
ContainerProperties:
MountPoints:
- ReadOnly: false
SourceVolume: nvidia
ContainerPath: /usr/local/nvidia
Volumes:
- Host:
SourcePath: /var/lib/nvidia-docker/volumes/nvidia_driver/latest
Name: nvidia
Command:
- nvidia-smi
Memory: 2000
Privileged: true
JobRoleArn: String
ReadonlyRootFilesystem: true
Vcpus: 2
Image: nvidia/cuda
Timeout:
AttemptDurationSeconds: 300
=== sample ===
Thank you.
I'm noticing a inconsistency in the YAML sample code templates. It's maybe a "small" thing, but it triggered me a bit. And before making a PR with "A lot" of changes I wanted to discuss this up front.
Issue
In YAML and the way it's processed (by CloudFormation itself and a lot of code processing it) there is an implicit typecasting that is going on. Which mean that the following 2 samples are "the same":
Type: AWS::Cloud9::EnvironmentEC2
Properties:
Repositories:
...
Type: "AWS::Cloud9::EnvironmentEC2"
Properties:
Repositories:
...
Since the Type is actually a String. This is "enforced" in JSON (because JSON), but in YAML everything is fine.
I noticed that the Sample snippets use both formats (with the quotes and without).
A few samples with quotes:
A few samples without quotes:
Proposal
I'd like to propose to change all YAML samples to use the "quoted" version of the types:
Type is a String, "lead by example" and make them Strings...The CloudFormation module for FlowLog has not been updated to support S3 delivery target.
Referencing the following documentation:
https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide/blob/master/doc_source/cfn-resource-specification.md
Can the CloudFormationResourceSpecification.json files be versioned in this repository? Or are they versioned elsewhere?
I have run into bugs when generating modules from the specifications, with things like broken Documentation property links. I think it would be beneficial to have the JSON files versioned here to make it easier to open issues on them and update/fix.
It would also make life easier for toolmakers by tracking the files in this repo (troposphere, sparkleformation, etc.), and being able to see the commits that have modified the json source files.
EDIT (04/28/18) Here is the published documentation page that includes the JSON specification templates I am referencing, but are not versioned within this repo: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-resource-specification.html
It was not clear how to test, build, or preview changes made to the doc files. Please add documentation to the README to facilitate previewing changes before submitting PR's.
I've just tried configuring a UserPool with a UserMigration lambda similar to how we do PreSignUp and CustomMessage and it fails template validation for LambdaConfig.
Given that you can configure UserMigration in the exact same way as the other lambda config options using the aws cli I was hoping it was just undocumented in the CloudFormation docs.
I'd really appreciate this functionality being added to LambdaConfig, it would avoid us having to write post stack creation scripts using the aws cli to update the UserPool afterwards.
By having a dependency on the UserMigration trigger it has rendered the LambdaConfig config unusable because if we have to update the pool post creation, we might as well keep all trigger updates together.
If it's as simple as adding validation for the config and if that code is open source, let me know and I'll happily add it.
Type: DynamoDB SSESpecification
Update requires: Some interruptions
Following the link there takes me here:
Where there is only one property of DynamoDB SSESpecification and updating that property apparently requires replacement.
Properties
SSEEnabled
Whether server-side encryption is enabled or not.
Required: Yes
Type: String
Update requires: Replacement
DBClusterParameterGroupName The name of the DB cluster parameter group to associate with this DB cluster.
If this argument is omitted, default.aurora5.6 is used. If default.aurora5.6 is used, specifying aurora-mysql or aurora-postgresql for the Engine property might result in an error. Required: No
Will it result in an error or not ??? Specifying "might" result in an error is pretty ambigous.
While trying to create PR for redundant "," character on Type: AWS::Events::EventBusPolicy, on the last YAML sample, clicked Edit on Github page and got 404 for https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-cloudformation-user-guide/tree/master/doc_source/aws-resource-events-eventbuspolicy.xml
Guessing all AWS Documentation pages are on this repo and this one is missing.
SqsParameters is missing from the Rule Target docs. It does appear in the resource specification files.
When "InstanceMarketOptions" is used in "AWS::EC2::LaunchTemplate", the "MarketType" property is required. If not given the stack throws error:
You must use a valid fully-formed launch template. The request must contain the parameter MarketType
The documentation currently states:
TargetGroupArn The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the target group to which Elastic Load Balancing routes the traffic.
Required: Yes
Type: String
It appears that this is a conditional requirement as an error is thrown if this property is defined with type 'redirect'
Test Policy:
{
"Version": "2008-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action":"sns:Publish"
"Principal": {
"AWS": "1234567689012",
"AWS": "2345676890123"
}
]
}
Expected behaviour: validation error.
Obtained behaviour: SNS topic remains with an empty policy
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