Creating App Mesh resources with Amazon CloudFormation
Important
End of support notice: On September 30, 2026, Amazon will discontinue support for Amazon App Mesh. After September 30, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the Amazon App Mesh console or Amazon App Mesh resources. For more information, visit this blog post Migrating from Amazon App Mesh to Amazon ECS Service Connect
App Mesh is integrated with Amazon CloudFormation, a service that helps you model and set up your Amazon resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the Amazon resources that you want, for example an App Mesh mesh, and Amazon CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you.
When you use Amazon CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your App Mesh resources consistently and repeatedly. Just describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple Amazon accounts and Regions.
App Mesh and Amazon CloudFormation templates
To provision and configure resources for App Mesh and related services, you must understand Amazon CloudFormation templates. Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your Amazon CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use Amazon CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with Amazon CloudFormation templates. For more information, see What is Amazon CloudFormation Designer? in the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.
App Mesh supports creating meshes, routes, virtual nodes, virtual routers, and virtual services in Amazon CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for your App Mesh resources, see App Mesh resource type reference in the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.
Learn more about Amazon CloudFormation
To learn more about Amazon CloudFormation, see the following resources: