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Prerequisites for using Amazon CloudFormation to set up Neptune

Before you create an Amazon Neptune cluster using an Amazon CloudFormation template, you need to have the following:

Create an Amazon EC2 Key Pair to use for launching a Neptune cluster using Amazon CloudFormation

In order to launch a Neptune DB cluster using an Amazon CloudFormation template, you must have an Amazon EC2key pair (and its associated PEM file) available in the region where you create the Amazon CloudFormation stack.

If you need to create the key pair, see either Creating a Key Pair Using Amazon EC2 in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances, or Creating a Key Pair Using Amazon EC2 in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Windows Instances for instructions.

Add IAM policies to grant permissions needed to use the Amazon CloudFormation template

First, you need to have an IAM user set up with permissions needed for working with Neptune, as described in Creating an IAM user with permissions for Neptune.

Then you need to add the Amazon managed policy, AWSCloudFormationReadOnlyAccess, to that user.

Finally, you need to create the following customer-managed policy and add it to that user:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
          "rds:CreateDBCluster",
          "rds:CreateDBInstance"
      ],
      "Resource": [
          "arn:aws:rds:*:*:*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
          "StringEquals": {
              "rds:DatabaseEngine": ["graphdb","neptune"]
          }
      }
    },
    {
      "Action": [
        "rds:AddRoleToDBCluster",
        "rds:AddSourceIdentifierToSubscription",
        "rds:AddTagsToResource",
        "rds:ApplyPendingMaintenanceAction",
        "rds:CopyDBClusterParameterGroup",
        "rds:CopyDBClusterSnapshot",
        "rds:CopyDBParameterGroup",
        "rds:CreateDBClusterParameterGroup",
        "rds:CreateDBClusterSnapshot",
        "rds:CreateDBParameterGroup",
        "rds:CreateDBSubnetGroup",
        "rds:CreateEventSubscription",
        "rds:DeleteDBCluster",
        "rds:DeleteDBClusterParameterGroup",
        "rds:DeleteDBClusterSnapshot",
        "rds:DeleteDBInstance",
        "rds:DeleteDBParameterGroup",
        "rds:DeleteDBSubnetGroup",
        "rds:DeleteEventSubscription",
        "rds:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "rds:DescribeCertificates",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusterParameterGroups",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusterParameters",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusterSnapshotAttributes",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusterSnapshots",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
        "rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "rds:DescribeDBLogFiles",
        "rds:DescribeDBParameterGroups",
        "rds:DescribeDBParameters",
        "rds:DescribeDBSecurityGroups",
        "rds:DescribeDBSubnetGroups",
        "rds:DescribeEngineDefaultClusterParameters",
        "rds:DescribeEngineDefaultParameters",
        "rds:DescribeEventCategories",
        "rds:DescribeEventSubscriptions",
        "rds:DescribeEvents",
        "rds:DescribeOptionGroups",
        "rds:DescribeOrderableDBInstanceOptions",
        "rds:DescribePendingMaintenanceActions",
        "rds:DescribeValidDBInstanceModifications",
        "rds:DownloadDBLogFilePortion",
        "rds:FailoverDBCluster",
        "rds:ListTagsForResource",
        "rds:ModifyDBCluster",
        "rds:ModifyDBClusterParameterGroup",
        "rds:ModifyDBClusterSnapshotAttribute",
        "rds:ModifyDBInstance",
        "rds:ModifyDBParameterGroup",
        "rds:ModifyDBSubnetGroup",
        "rds:ModifyEventSubscription",
        "rds:PromoteReadReplicaDBCluster",
        "rds:RebootDBInstance",
        "rds:RemoveRoleFromDBCluster",
        "rds:RemoveSourceIdentifierFromSubscription",
        "rds:RemoveTagsFromResource",
        "rds:ResetDBClusterParameterGroup",
        "rds:ResetDBParameterGroup",
        "rds:RestoreDBClusterFromSnapshot",
        "rds:RestoreDBClusterToPointInTime"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
          "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "kms:ListAliases",
        "kms:ListKeyPolicies",
        "kms:ListKeys",
        "kms:ListRetirableGrants",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams",
        "logs:GetLogEvents",
        "sns:ListSubscriptions",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "sns:Publish"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
          "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
            "iam:passedToService": "rds.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/rds.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForRDS",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
            "iam:AWSServiceName": "rds.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}