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AWS offers many services to store state / data. Some are persistent, others are not.
Client Security Group
Some data stores are integrated into the VPC, others are only accessible via the AWS API. For VPC integration, you have to create a Client Security Group stack. The stack is used as a parent stack for ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, and RDS. To communicate with the data store from a EC2 instance, you have to attach the Client Security Group to the EC2 instance. The Security Group does not have any rules, but it marks traffic. The marked traffic is then allowed to enter the data store.
Installation Guide
- This templates depends on one of our
vpc-*azs.yaml
templates. - Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
Dependencies
vpc/vpc-*azs.yaml
(required)
DynamoDB table
DynamoDB table with auto scaling for read and write capacity.
Installation Guide
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
Dependencies
operations/alert.yaml
(recommended)
Limitations
- No backup (see
operations/backup-dynamodb-native.yaml
) - Encryption at rest with AWS managed CMK (customer managed is not supported)
ElastiCache memcached
Cluster of memcached nodes.
Installation Guide
- This templates depends on one of our
vpc-*azs.yaml
templates. - This templates depends on the
client-sg.yaml
template. - Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
Dependencies
vpc/vpc-*azs.yaml
(required)state/client-sg.yaml
(required)vpc/zone-*.yaml
vpc/vpc-*-bastion.yaml
operations/alert.yaml
(recommended)
Limitations
- No backup
- No data replication (use as a in-memory cache only)
- No auto scaling
Elasticsearch
Cluster of Elasticsearch nodes.
Installation Guide
- Create Service-Linked Role for Elasticsearch:
aws --region us-east-1 iam create-service-linked-role --aws-service-name es.amazonaws.com
- This templates depends on one of our
vpc-*azs.yaml
templates. - This templates depends on the
client-sg.yaml
template. - Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
Dependencies
vpc/vpc-*azs.yaml
(required)state/client-sg.yaml
(required)vpc/zone-*.yaml
vpc/vpc-*-bastion.yaml
operations/alert.yaml
(recommended)
Limitations
- No auto scaling
RDS Aurora
Two node Aurora cluster for HA.
Installation Guide
- This templates depends on one of our
vpc-*azs.yaml
templates. - This templates depends on the
client-sg.yaml
template. - Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
Dependencies
vpc/vpc-*azs.yaml
(required)state/client-sg.yaml
(required)vpc/zone-*.yaml
vpc/vpc-*-bastion.yaml
operations/alert.yaml
(recommended)
Limitations
- No auto scaling
RDS Aurora Serverless
Aurora Serverless cluster.
Installation Guide
- This templates depends on one of our
vpc-*azs.yaml
templates. - This templates depends on the
client-sg.yaml
template. - This templates depends on the
kms-key.yaml
template. - Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
Dependencies
vpc/vpc-*azs.yaml
(required)state/client-sg.yaml
(required)security/kms-key.yaml
(required)vpc/zone-*.yaml
vpc/vpc-*-bastion.yaml
operations/alert.yaml
(recommended)
RDS MySQL
Multi-AZ MySQL for HA.
Installation Guide
- This templates depends on one of our
vpc-*azs.yaml
templates. - This templates depends on the
client-sg.yaml
template. - Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
Dependencies
vpc/vpc-*azs.yaml
(required)state/client-sg.yaml
(required)vpc/zone-*.yaml
vpc/vpc-*-bastion.yaml
operations/alert.yaml
(recommended)
Limitations
- No auto scaling
RDS Postgres
Multi-AZ Postgres for HA.
Installation Guide
- This templates depends on one of our
vpc-*azs.yaml
templates. - This templates depends on the
client-sg.yaml
template. - Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
Dependencies
vpc/vpc-*azs.yaml
(required)state/client-sg.yaml
(required)vpc/zone-*.yaml
vpc/vpc-*-bastion.yaml
operations/alert.yaml
(recommended)
Limitations
- No auto scaling
S3
S3 bucket with optional public read access.
Installation Guide
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
- Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
- Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
- Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
- Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
- Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE