Provisioning AWS Resources

Resources

The following resources are required or recommended in order to use all Automation with AWS capabilities:

An IAM role
A managed IAM policy
One or more SNS topics
One or more Lambda functions
One or more Step Functions state machines
One or more CloudWatch Events rules
One or more SQS queues

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 Automation with AWS core resources:

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 the following Automation with AWS quickstart resources:

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
QuickstartCloudWatchEventsRuleArn	AWS::Events::Rule	ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart CloudWatch Events rule
QuickstartLambdaFunctionArn	AWS::Lambda::Function	ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart Lambda function
QuickstartSNSTopicArn	AWS::SNS::Topic	ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart SNS topic
QuickstartSQSQueueArn	AWS::SQS::Queue	ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart SQS queue
QuickstartStepFunctionsStateMachineArn	AWS::StepFunctions::Function	ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart Step Functions state machine
QuickstartSystemsManagerParameterRuleArn	AWS::Events::Rule	ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart Systems Manager Parameter rule

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