These are the input parameters for this template. All of these parameters must be supplied for this template to be deployed.
The name of the database instance.
VPCID is the ID of the VPC where this template will be deployed.
The EC2 Subnet IDs for the DB Subnet Group.
Default EC2 Instance Type for Application instances.
Snapshot identifier for restore. Specify this OR a password, but not both.
The password of the database user
The following tags are applied to all resources created by this template.
Metadata is mostly for organizing and presenting Parameters in a better way when using CloudFormation in the AWS Web UI.
These are all of the resources deployed by this template.
This deploys the database RDS instance with some tags.
Subnet group for the database instance, that has at least two availiablity zones
Security group for the database instance, that allows MYSQL into the database.
Output values that can be viewed from the AWS CloudFormation console.
RDS MYSQL CloudFormation Deployment
This CloudFormation template will deploy an RDS instance using MYSQL with it's own security group.