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Thom Smith
Thom Smith

Reputation: 14086

Use SSM parameter whose name depends on a CFN parameter

I have a CloudFormation template that looks something like the following:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Parameters:
  env:
    Type: String
    Default: NONE
Resources:
  GraphQLAPI:
    Type: AWS::AppSync::GraphQLApi
    Properties:
      Name: !Sub 'my-api-${env}'
      AuthenticationType: AMAZON_COGNITO_USER_POOLS
      UserPoolConfig:
        UserPoolId: <something>
        AwsRegion: !Ref AWS::Region
        DefaultAction: ALLOW

Suppose that I already have a SSM parameter named /dev/cognitoUserPoolId. When I create this template, passing env=dev, I want to use the value of that parameter as the UserPoolId. I want to avoid manually passing a new CFN parameter for every SSM parameter, as there may be quite a few in practice.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 718

Answers (2)

Jiju Thomas Mathew
Jiju Thomas Mathew

Reputation: 11

The version is optional and if not specified SSM will return the latest version

Upvotes: 0

Chris Pollard
Chris Pollard

Reputation: 1780

You should be able to use dynamic references to the SSM parameters in your template.

Something like: 

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Parameters:
  env:
    Type: String
    Default: NONE
Resources:
  GraphQLAPI:
    Type: AWS::AppSync::GraphQLApi
    Properties:
      Name: !Sub 'my-api-${env}'
      AuthenticationType: AMAZON_COGNITO_USER_POOLS
      UserPoolConfig:
        UserPoolId: !Sub '{{resolve:ssm:/${env}/cognitoUserPoolId:1}}'
        AwsRegion: !Ref AWS::Region
        DefaultAction: ALLOW

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/dynamic-references.html

Upvotes: 2

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