How To Import Existing AWS Resources Into AWS CloudFormation

[@glennadams7047]

Great! It would be nice if AWS had the ability to export a manually created resource and create the appropriate CF template.. Thanks for the informative video.

[@janik6n]

I was kind of hoping that an actual import would have happened by some SAM magic to the template. But the ”import” was fully manual… In case you would like to see some actual import happening from existing resources, have a look at terraform.

[@pablogonzalezrobles4429]

Agree. For myseof, it is not import, it looks more like linking an existing resource to a stack. I guess aws someday will add a combobox so se just need to pick and accept/refresh the resource settings #justsaying

[@glennadams7047]

Thanks for the tip!

[@daniellee3987]

Agreed, the title and the opening of the video is kinda misleading

[@brandonhunter2074]

@@daniellee3987 well the title isn't necessarily misleading, but it seems as tho you were hoping for feature parity between CF and TF that does not yet exist. Perhaps it may in the future as CF has been trying to catch up with TF features now for many years but today is not yet that day.

[@petrodyak]

There is a great tool to generate Yaml code for existed resources. This tool called Former2. Then you can you this yaml in Cloud formation.

[@leandrofoxbat1777]

just what i need it

[@samuraiwolf3669]

pls make a video on reading Json file with python n sending it to SQS and checking it on lambda before storing in the dynamoDb I'm having trouble in connecting sqs with lambda to Dynamodb I've successfully sent Json batch messages from python to sqs but stuck after that

[@harrison_williams]

Not sure where that clipboard data came from 2:30

[@gdevelek]

If YOU have to write the code for the DynamoDB table into the template file, what exactly is this whole exercise for??? I see no point at all.

[@Vendavalez]

The main use case I see it being used for is for long running services that has a ton of logs associated to it and, for auditing reasons, you would rather keep the same resource. For most cases I would just recreate the resource and delete the old one once the new one has passed testing.

[@prashantb6164]

what to do when if i just want to update the property of resource.. for example event source of already imported resource..

[@neerajupa]

what about the data ? if my dynamo db table having data.

[@soulofangel1990]

or you can just run Sam deploy once the code is changed if I'm not wrong, NO?

[@zacharyohare2118]

Yeah this is unfortunate since it means I have to learn CF the old way anyways- but also means it should be a bit easier to build some automations for it. I'm needing a way to maintain changes made to one region's connect instance, in a duplicate instance of another region, without just manually clicking through a UI/doing a bunch of import/export stuff. Needs to happen programmatically- so once my UI is working, I suppose I need an update function that will run via API somehow. Way over my head here...

[@abdulfazul]

I have watch a lot of your Videos like "How To Import Existing AWS Resources Into AWS CloudFormation" What I don't follow is if a Resource has been added to a an enviroment via the console, it has to be added manually to the Template. Is there a way to add all new Resources (i.e Cloudformation drift) into the template automatically. I tried FORMER2, which creates a Cloudformation Template from Resources in an AWS Account, but I don't have enough knowledge to troubleshoot, why it is not working Thanks

[@andriys5772]

Thank you so much! One question, if I delete a stack the dynamodb table won't be deleted, correct?

[@BeABetterDev]

Thanks Andriy. I just tested out deletion and you are correct - deleting the stack will not delete the resource (ddb table in this case). The exact language used in the Cloudformation console is "Delete Skipped" when deleting the stack.

[@andriys5772]

@@BeABetterDev Thank you!

[@andriys5772]

It's now much easy to write policies when we have resource in template.yaml file.

[@sumitrawat2037]

@@BeABetterDev Is it because `DeletionPolicy: Retain` ?

[@harvestingdata]

I have liked many of the videos from this channel. However, the import was manual and not exactly what I was hoping to see. Also, it would have been better if this was explicitly called out in the video.