Release: AWS CloudFormation on 2011-05-03
This release of AWS CloudFormation introduces wait conditions, Amazon S3 bucket support, Elastic IP association support, and support for creating Amazon RDS DB instances from snapshots.
Details
New Features
| Feature |
Description |
| WaitCondition resource |
Using the AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition and AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle resources, you can place a wait
condition in a template to make AWS CloudFormation pause the creation of the stack and wait for a signal before it continues to create the stack.
For more information,
see Creating Wait Conditions
in a Template, AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition Type, AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle Type, and
Wait Condition Template
Snippets. |
| Amazon S3 support |
You can now create Amazon S3 buckets and website-enabled Amazon S3 buckets. For more information,
see AWS::S3::Bucket and
the Amazon S3 Template Snippets. |
| Elastic IP association support |
You can now use an AWS::EC2::EIPAssociation resource to associate an Amazon EC2 instance with a specific Elastic IP
address or an Elastic IP address allocated with the AWS::EC2::EIP resource.
In addition, the InstanceId property of the AWS::EC2::EIP resource is now optional. You can use AWS::EC2::EIP to allocate an Elastic IP
and assign it to an EC2 instance using the InstanceId property, or you can simply allocate the Elastic IP and use an AWS::EC2::EIPAssociation
resource to associate it with an EC2 instance. For more information,
see AWS::EC2::EIPAssociation
AWS::EC2::EIP, and
Amazon EC2 Template Snippets. |
| Support for creating Amazon RDS DB instances from database snapshots in all AWS regions |
You can now use the DBSnapshotIdentifier property on the AWS::RDS::DBInstance resource to create a DB Instance from a
database snapshot.
For more information, see AWS::RDS::DBInstance Type. |