Provisioning AWS Resources
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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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 | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) IAM role | |
CorePolicyArn | 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 | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) IAM role | |
CorePolicyArn | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) managed IAM policy | |
QuickstartCloudWatchEventsRuleArn | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart CloudWatch Events rule | |
QuickstartLambdaFunctionArn | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart Lambda function | |
QuickstartSNSTopicArn | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart SNS topic | |
QuickstartSQSQueueArn | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart SQS queue | |
QuickstartStepFunctionsStateMachineArn | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart Step Functions state machine | |
QuickstartSystemsManagerParameterRuleArn | ARN of Automation with AWS (Core) quickstart Systems Manager Parameter rule |
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