amazon-web-services AWS CloudFormation CloudFormation sample script to create an EC2 instance along with a Security Group to associate with.

Example

This example will create an EC2 instance of t2.micro type in N.Virginia region running Amazon Linux. During the execution, it will ask to select the KeyPair to use and an I.P. CIDR from where you can SSH to the instance, use default to make SSH open to the internet

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",

  "Description" : "AWS CloudFormation Sample Template EC2InstanceWithSecurityGroupSample: Create an Amazon EC2 instance running the Amazon Linux AMI. This example creates an EC2 security group for the instance to give you SSH access. ",

  "Parameters" : {
    "KeyName": {
      "Description" : "Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the instance",
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::KeyPair::KeyName",
      "ConstraintDescription" : "must be the name of an existing EC2 KeyPair."
    },
    "SSHLocation" : {
      "Description" : "The IP address range that can be used to SSH to the EC2 instances",
      "Type": "String",
      "MinLength": "9",
      "MaxLength": "18",
      "Default": "0.0.0.0/0",
      "AllowedPattern": "(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})/(\\d{1,2})",
      "ConstraintDescription": "must be a valid IP CIDR range of the form x.x.x.x/x."
   }
  },

  "Resources" : {
    "EC2Instance" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",
      "Properties" : {
        "InstanceType" : “t2.micro”,
        "SecurityGroups" : [ { "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup" } ],
        "KeyName" : { "Ref" : "KeyName" },
        "ImageId" : “ami-6869aa05”
      }
    },

    "InstanceSecurityGroup" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
      "Properties" : {
        "GroupDescription" : "Enable SSH access via port 22",
        "SecurityGroupIngress" : [ {
          "IpProtocol" : "tcp",
          "FromPort" : "22",
          "ToPort" : "22",
          "CidrIp" : { "Ref" : "SSHLocation"}
        } ]
      }
    }
  },

  "Outputs" : {
    "InstanceId" : {
      "Description" : "InstanceId of the newly created EC2 instance",
      "Value" : { "Ref" : "EC2Instance" }
    },
    "AZ" : {
      "Description" : "Availability Zone of the newly created EC2 instance",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "EC2Instance", "AvailabilityZone" ] }
    },
    "PublicDNS" : {
      "Description" : "Public DNSName of the newly created EC2 instance",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "EC2Instance", "PublicDnsName" ] }
    },
    "PublicIP" : {
      "Description" : "Public IP address of the newly created EC2 instance",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "EC2Instance", "PublicIp" ] }
    }
  }
}