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How to Set-up CloudFormation?

1. Enter or Specify the Stack name to launch the CloudFormation

Specify Details Pop up

2. Select the Primary Availability Zone for EC2 and RDS instance

Select Primary Availability Zone

3. Select the Secondary Availability Zone for Salve RDS Database Note:Do not use the same AZ as Master RDS

Secondary Availability Zone

4. Select the Instance Type as per your requirement

Select Instance Type Menu

5. Select the existing Key pair to enable SSH access for the instance

Key select option for SSH

6. Place the ip address range that can be used to SSH to the EC2 Instance

SSH IP Whitelist

7. Enter the EC2 AutoScaling Configuration Details

EC2 AutoScaling Configuration Pop up

8. Enter details for RDS Configuration : Instance Type, MySQL Admin Password, Multi-AZ Database and DB Allocated Storage.

RDS Configuration Pop up

9. Tag your AWS Resources with Key and its Value For eg: Name (Key) :  App Name(Value), and click on Next

Tag Pop up

10. Check the CloudFormation Configuration and if there is no change, Click on Create 

Cloudformation Review Page

11. Once you Click on Create it will start the CloudFormation Setup and this process will take up to 30-35 minutes

Cloudformation Status Page

12. Now, you can check the Setup is Complete and it will show as CREATE_COMPLETE

CloudFormation page