Creating Amazon RDS resources with AWS CloudFormation

Amazon RDS is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a service that helps you to model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want (such as DB instances and DB parameter groups), and CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.

When you use CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your RDS resources consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions.

RDS and CloudFormation templates

CloudFormation templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with CloudFormation templates. For more information, see What is CloudFormation Designer? in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

RDS supports creating resources in CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for these resources, see the RDS resource type reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Learn more about CloudFormation

To learn more about CloudFormation, see the following resources: