AWS CloudFormation Templates

1. autoscale-healthyhost-template.json

• CloudWatch and AutoScaling work together to monitor ELB/instances and maintain the total number of desired instances in the pool.

2. bastion-template.json

• Bastion host on-demand. Launch a bastion (jump host) into a public subnet to access your VPC via SSH. Terminate the server when unused.

3. cis-benchmark-section3-template.json

• AWS CIS Foundations Benchmark v1.1.0 11-09-2016 remediation template. (Remediates Sections 3.x & 2.1-2.4)

4. cloudwatch-iam-alarms-template.json

• Creates CloudTrail IAM API activity alarms for CloudWatch logs.

5. elasticache-template.json

• Creates an ElastiCache cluster in a VPC.

6. elb-template.json

• Secure public facing SSL ELB template. Create and manage your SSL cipher policy.

7. iam-poweruser-template.json

• Creates an IAM "power user" group and inline policy.

8. nat-instance-template.json

• Deploys a NAT instance with the option for enhanced network capabilities into a public subnet.

9. rds-replica-template.json

• Create a multi-AZ provisioned IOps RDS instance with an optional read replica.

10. s3-logging-bucket.json

• Create a S3 logging bucket, bucket policy and retension policy in the region the stack is launched in.

11. spot-fleet-template.json

• Creates and deploys a Spot Fleet into two availability-zones/Subnets and autoscales based on the average CPU of the Fleet.

12. vpc-2az-natgw-template.json

• Creates a VPC with AWS NAT Gateways in 2 availability-zones, 4-6 subnets (optional Db subnet tier).

13. vpc-2az-template.json

• Creates a VPC with Managed NAT instances in 2 availability-zones, 4-6 subnets (optional Db subnet tier).
• https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/toddm92/public/diagrams/vpc-2az-diagram.jpg

14. vpc-beanstalk-template.json

• Creates a VPC with four subnets in two availability zones. Launches an Elastic Beanstalk environment.
• https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/toddm92/public/diagrams/vpc-beanstalk-env.jpg

15. vpc-elasticache-template.json

• Creates a VPC with four subnets in two availability zones. Calls the elasticache-template.json nested stack.

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