You likely need to provision a few dedicated AWS resources to get started with automation. To ease this, there are two AWS CloudFormation templates to choose from.
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Resources
The following resources are required or recommended in order to use Automation with AWS:
- An IAM role
- A managed IAM policy
- At least one SNS topic
- At least one Lambda function
The CloudFormation templates below can provision these resources for you.
CloudFormation Templates
There are two CloudFormation templates to choose from for provisioning required AWS resources:
Automation with AWS (Core)
This template provisions the following core resources for Automation with AWS:
These resources are semantically required and we recommend to provision a dedicated IAM role indeed.
Key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CoreRoleArn | AWS::IAM::Role | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) IAM role |
| CorePolicyArn | AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) managed IAM policy |
Automation with AWS (Quickstart)
This template provisions quickstart resources for Automation with AWS:
These resources aim to get you started quickly by covering the basic action scenarios, and some logging/debugging aids.
| Key | Related Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CoreRoleArn | AWS::IAM::Role | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) IAM role |
| CorePolicyArn | AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) managed IAM policy |
| LogFunctionLink | AWS::Lambda::Function | Link to Automation with AWS Lambda log function |
| LogQueueLink | AWS::SQS::Queue | Link to Automation with AWS SQS log queue |
| QuickstartLambdaFunctionArn | AWS::Lambda::Function | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart Lambda function |
| QuickstartLambdaFunctionLink | AWS::Lambda::Function | Link to Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart Lambda functio |
| QuickstartSNSTopicArn | AWS::SNS::Topic | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart SNS topic |
| QuickstartSNSTopicLink | AWS::SNS::Topic | Link to Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart SNS topic |
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