Creating an Aurora Serverless Cluster from cloudformation?

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howard.h picture howard.h · Aug 16, 2018 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

From Aurora Serverless's document, there are 3 ways to create an Aurora serverless DB cluster: AWS management console, CLI, and RDS API. (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/aurora-serverless.create.html)

Form my understanding, one would use EngineMode in the RDS API to create Aurora Serverless, but this property is not available in AWS::RDS::DBCluster yet (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-rds-dbcluster.html).

Would it be possible to create an Aurora Serverless Cluster from cloudformation? Any advice would be appreciated!

Answer

howard.h picture howard.h · Oct 25, 2018

Thanks for Chris's update. As an example, here is my cloudFormation template for serverless aurora. We no longer need the DBInstance.

  RDSCluster:
    Type: AWS::RDS::DBCluster
    Properties:
      MasterUsername: 
        Ref: DBUsername
      MasterUserPassword: 
        Ref: DBPassword
      DatabaseName: RANDOMNAME
      Engine: aurora
      EngineMode: serverless
      ScalingConfiguration:
        AutoPause: true
        MaxCapacity: 16
        MinCapacity: 2
        SecondsUntilAutoPause: 300
      DBSubnetGroupName:
        Ref: DBSubnetGroup

More complete example of all available options for RDS (including Aurora): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-rds-dbcluster.html

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