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:
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Resource types and their properties
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DeletionPolicy
and other resource-level attributes -
Intrinsic functions, such as
Ref
andSub
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Transforms (CloudFormation macros)
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Helper scripts for EC2 instance configuration
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Machine-readable resource type definitions
This guide is regularly updated to reflect:
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New resource types
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Property changes
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New return values
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Documentation updates