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New CloudFormation Templates - NAT Gateway, Static website, Security

Michael Wittig – 07 Apr 2016

We released four new CloudFormation templates. Using our Infrastructure as Code templates will help you to bootstrap common setups on Amazon Web Services (AWS) within minutes. Our templates are exclusively designed for AWS CloudFormation, the Infrastructure as Code services on AWS. Learn more about our Templates for AWS CloudFormation on GitHub.

Static website

This template describes the infrastructure for hosting a static website behind a CDN.

Architecture

Install free template

NAT Gateway

This template creates a NAT Gateway that forwards HTTP, HTTPS and NTP traffic from private subnets to the Internet.

Architecture

Install free template

Security

CloudTrail across all regions

This template enables CloudTrail to records AWS API calls across all regions in your AWS account. API calls are archived in S3 and also pushed CloudWatch Logs. If new API calls are available in S3 a SNS topic is notified.

Install free template

Account Password Policy

This template creates an account password policy for your IAM users. You can:

  • set IAM user passwords to be valid for only the specified number of days.
  • prevent IAM users from reusing a specified number of previous passwords.
  • specify the minimum number of characters allowed in an IAM user password.
  • require that IAM user passwords contain at least one lowercase character from the ISO basic Latin alphabet (a to z).
  • require that IAM user passwords contain at least one uppercase character from the ISO basic Latin alphabet (A to Z).
  • require that IAM user passwords contain at least one numeric character (0 to 9).
  • require that IAM user passwords contain at least one nonalphanumeric character.
  • permit all IAM users in your account to use the IAM console to change their own passwords.
  • prevent IAM users from choosing a new password after their current password has expired.

Or just use the suggested defaults.

Install free template

Support

We offer support for our CloudFormation templates: setting up environments based on our templates, adopting templates to specific use cases, resolving issues in production environments. Hire us!

Michael Wittig

Michael Wittig

I’ve been building on AWS since 2012 together with my brother Andreas. We are sharing our insights into all things AWS on cloudonaut and have written the book AWS in Action. Besides that, we’re currently working on bucketAV, HyperEnv for GitHub Actions, and marbot.

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