The Amazon CloudFormation Template Reference Guide - Amazon CloudFormation
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The Amazon CloudFormation Template Reference Guide

Detailed information about the resources and components available for creating Amazon CloudFormation templates can now be found in the Amazon CloudFormation Template Reference Guide. This guide serves as a technical reference for templates and complements the getting started content in the CloudFormation User Guide.

The Amazon CloudFormation Template Reference Guide provides details about:

  • Resource types and their properties

  • DeletionPolicy and other resource-level attributes

  • Intrinsic functions, such as Ref and Sub

  • Transforms (CloudFormation macros)

  • Helper scripts for EC2 instance configuration

  • Machine-readable resource type definitions

This guide is regularly updated to reflect:

  • New resource types

  • Property changes

  • New return values

  • Documentation updates