AWS CloudFormation Updates Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon GameLift Resource Support

Posted on: Apr 25, 2016

AWS CloudFormation has updated support for four services. You can now use the following features with CloudFormation:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Provision an EC2 Dedicated Host, a physical server with EC2 instance capacity fully dedicated to your use. Dedicated Hosts can help you address compliance requirements and reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses.
Indicate whether EC2 should always associate an instance with an EC2 Dedicated Host. If an instance is associated with a Dedicated Host, then you specify the ID of the Dedicated Host that you want the instance launched on.

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Configure ECS deployments by setting the number of tasks that can be run when updating an ECS service. You can set a lower limit for the number of running and healthy tasks during a deployment, and an upper limit for the number of running tasks during a deployment.
New support for additional ECS container definition properties, which describe the configuration of a container.

AWS Lambda

Amazon GameLift

Specify the maximum and minimum number of EC2 instances allowed in a GameLift fleet, which represents one build of your game server that is replicated across many EC2 instances.

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