Dear Reader, hope you are doing great today :). In this post, I will help you create IAM role using CloudFormation. While creating the role using CloudFormation we will learn various ways a policy can be attached to an IAM Role. In case you have just started with AWS, below is Read More
Error Message : Property AssumeRolePolicyDocument cannot be empty Problem: When you try to create an IAM role using AWS::IAM::Role resource and you don’t specify anything in AssumeRolePolicyDocument parameter, you get this error. I guess the error message itself is self explanatory that AssumeRolePolicyDocument can not be empty. If you check documentation for Read More
Dear Reader, Hope you are doing well. In this post, you will learn to use AWS CloudFormation to Create SNS Topic and Subscription. We will be discussing the creation of Standard topic as well as FIFO topic(Yes they do exists and are meant to be used with SQS FIFO queues 🙂 ). Read More
How to Create AWS SQS Queue Policy using CloudFormation Dear Reader, I hope you are doing good. In one of my previous post, I helped you create an SQS queue using CloudFormation . I also came with a post on how to configure an SQS dead letter using CloudFormation. In Read More
Dear Reader, Hope you are doing good. In today’s post, I will help you configure AWS SQS dead letter queue using CloudFormation. But, before we configure an SQS DLQ using CloudFormation, let’s try to understand what exactly is a dead letter queue and how it works. Feel free to skip below Read More
How to setup S3 bucket lifecycle configuration using CloudFormation AWS S3 or Simple Storage Service is one of the backbone services of AWS. When you use AWS as your cloud provider, there is almost always a chance that, you use S3 buckets in some way or other. When you use Read More
In this post, I will help you create amazon SQS queue using CloudFormation. I will be discussing creation of standard queue as well as FIFO queue using CloudFormation. Let’s start with understanding amazon SQS !!! What is Amazon SQS? Amazon SQS or Simple Queue Service is a fully managed message Read More
Error Message : cannot perform more than one GSI creation or deletion in a single update Problem: I was trying to add multiple GSI on an existing table using CloudFormation updatestack. Initially, I created a DynamoDB table with two GSI Location-index and Department-index. After few days of initial table creation, Read More
How to Create DynamoDB table with Global Secondary Index using CloudFormation? A few days ago, I wrote a post on Creating a DynamoDB table using CloudFormation. Back then, I didn’t cover Global Secondary Indexes or GSI. You might ask, why? Well, I wanted to give GSI special attention as there Read More
Have you ever created a CodeCommit repo using CloudFormation? Ever Wondered, how to create a CodeCommit repo using CloudFormation with existing code? Created an empty repo and thought to update your stack to add code later? Is that even possible? Don’t worry, we will answer all the above question in Read More
