Resources

Every resource type documented on this site, grouped by service.

Amazon EC2

1 type

AWS::EC2::Instance Instance Launches a single EC2 instance. Straightforward to write and unforgiving to update — over half its properties replace the instance when changed, which is why most production capacity is defined by a launch template instead. 20 properties1 required

Amazon Route 53

1 type

AWS::Route53::RecordSet RecordSet Creates a DNS record in a Route 53 hosted zone, including the alias records and routing policies that make Route 53 more than a name server. 15 properties2 required

Amazon S3

1 type

AWS::S3::Bucket Bucket Creates an Amazon S3 bucket — a region-scoped, globally-named container for objects, and the resource most likely to be the last thing standing when you try to delete a stack. 16 properties

AWS Identity and Access Management

1 type

AWS::IAM::Role Role Creates an IAM role — a set of permissions that principals assume rather than hold, and the join between "who is asking" and "what they may do". 9 properties1 required

AWS Systems Manager

1 type

AWS::SSM::Parameter Parameter Creates a Systems Manager Parameter Store parameter — a named, versioned, optionally encrypted configuration value that other services and stacks can read at runtime rather than at deploy time. 9 properties2 required

Updraft Config

3 types

Updraft::Config::Document Document Reads a JSON or YAML document from Amazon S3 at stack-operation time and makes its contents available to the rest of the template — so configuration can live in a versioned file rather than in fifty template parameters. 12 properties1 required Updraft::Config::Lookup Lookup Extracts a single value from an Updraft::Config::Document and exposes it as a template attribute, with an optional default, a type assertion, and a clear failure when the path is not there. 8 properties2 required Updraft::Config::ParameterSet ParameterSet Writes every value in an Updraft::Config::Document into SSM Parameter Store under a common prefix, as one CloudFormation resource that owns the whole set and cleans up after itself. 10 properties2 requiredPreview

Updraft Region

2 types

Updraft::Region::Metadata Metadata Exposes facts about an AWS region — partition, DNS suffix, availability-zone count, opt-in status, geography — so a template can adapt to where it is deploying instead of carrying a mapping table that goes stale. 4 properties Updraft::Region::Stagger Stagger Computes a deterministic per-region offset, so the same template deployed to twelve regions produces twelve different start times instead of twelve simultaneous ones. 8 properties1 required

Updraft Schedule

2 types

Updraft::Schedule::CronExpression CronExpression Builds a cron expression from a described intent and a named time zone, so a template can say "03:00 in Toronto, weekdays only" instead of a UTC field string that silently drifts by an hour twice a year. 12 properties2 required Updraft::Schedule::MaintenanceWindow MaintenanceWindow Resolves a maintenance window from a duration, a set of acceptable days, and an optional per-region offset — emitting the start time, the end time, and the cron expression in one resource instead of three hand-aligned ones. 8 properties4 requiredPreview