Which services can be managed by AWS SAM? - amazon-web-services

Which services can be managed by the AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model) framework?
AWS Docs seem to list contradicting information:
https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/ lists plenty of services as serverless, incl. Lambda, Fargate, ..., SNS, SQS, ... DynamoDB, S3.
SAM resource reference lists only: Api, Application, Function, HttpApi, LayerVersion, SimpleTable, StateMachine.
Yet, I cannot find any mention in the SAM docs on how to create an S3 bucket.
An example doubt is - can I have an S3 bucket created using SAM framework?
Can SAM deploy to Fargate too?

You can add any CloudFormation component as part of your SAM config file. As noted in the SAM developer guide:
AWS SAM templates are an extension of AWS CloudFormation templates, with some additional components that make them easier to work with. For the full reference for AWS CloudFormation templates, see AWS CloudFormation Template Reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

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How to build CloudFormation template from multiple yml

I'm trying to get this repo going here - https://github.com/mydatastack/google-analytics-to-s3.
A link is provided to launch the AWS CloudFormation stack but it is no longer working as the S3 bucket containing the template is no longer active.
I have 2 questions about getting data pipeline running:
My first question would be what is 631216aef6ab2824fc63572d1d3d5e6c.template and can I create it through the 3 .yml files in the CloudFormation folder?
I've tried to create a template through CloudFormation designer , collector-ga.yml but it fails. I think its because the Resources within the yml aren't available when creating a template just from collector-ga. I've also tried uploading the repo to s3 and creating a template from there but that was also unsuccessful.
How can I launch the stack from the repo? I've found very little information online so an explanation or a pointer to some relevant resources would be appreciated.
This repository doesn't use the "standard" CloudFormation resources, but it uses AWS SAM. You'll have to install the SAM CLI tool and use that to deploy the CloudFormation stack. If you run sam deploy --guided it will help you with the setup of the necessary S3 bucket etc on your AWS account. SAM will upload the necessary files, resolve the internal local links between the templates by updating them with the S3 URLs and construct a packaged.yml template which it will use to deploy the stack.
Also, check out the AWS SAM user guide for more information.

Access S3 directly from apigateway using SAM

I'm using SAM to create a cloudformation template. But Now I need access S3 from apigateway and I can't find a way to do it with SAM.
with Cloudformation I can create a AWS::ApiGateway::Resource and AWS::ApiGateway::Method with AWS Integration to achieve it but it has an issue when deploy because I'm mixing ApiGateway and SAM. I would like to avoid migrate the template to OpenAPI definition for just one endpoint.
So is there a way to accomplish it with SAM?

AWS SAM update function code of lambda of an API Gateway

I am using CloudFormation with SAM to deploy a stack which contains:
S3 Bucket
Cognito
AWS::Serverless::Api
AWS::Serverless::Function (authorizers + microservices, Type: Api and endpoints of the API Gateway)
Log Groups
To deploy my stack, I first run aws cloudformation package to package the lambda and then run aws cloudformation deploy to deploy the generated stack. This is working.
My goal now is to be able to update a microservice without deploying the entire stack (not building authorizers and other microservices), similar to serverless deploy function in the Serverless framework. This should preferably be one reusable template that uses a macro or just replaces text in the file.
The problem I am facing with this:
Running aws lambda update-function-code requires the lambda to be redeployed
To redeploy the lambda I have to declare AWS::Serverless::Function. For the function to be part of the API Gateway, AWS::Serverless::Api must be declared as well.
Declaring AWS::Serverless::Api requires all the other functions to be defined or they will be removed from the API Gateway.
I feel like I am stuck here and have not found other options of achieving my goal.
Since you're using SAM, I'd recommend deploying and updating your application using the sam cli commands.
You can run
sam build
sam package
sam deploy
When you run sam deploy, it deploys your application, but all subsequent sam deploy commands will update your existing cloudformation stack with only the appropriate resources that need updating.
If you opt for keeping with the standard Cloudformation cli commands, you could use the aws cloudformation update-stack command so that you're not re-deploying an entire new stack.

Is there a "requester pays" attribute for S3 Buckets being created with CloudFormation Templates?

I am trying to create a CloudFormation Template (CFT) for a S3 Bucket that needs to be "PublicRead" and that also has "Requester Pays" turned on.
I have looked at the documentation for S3 Bucket CFTs: AWS::S3::Bucket - AWS CloudFormation
Also I have looked at the documentation for "Requester Pays", but it fails to mention anything about CFTs. It only references enabling it through the console and with the REST API:
Requester Pays Buckets - Amazon Simple Storage Service
Right now we are trying to get all our infrastructure into infrastructure as code, but this is a somewhat large blocker for that. I have heard that other people have had trouble with CFTs not supporting some features from AWS services, but usually those are for unpopular/newer services. I would think that CFT would support all the options that S3 has for buckets.
You are correct. The CloudFormation AWS::S3::Bucket resources does not support Requester Pays.
The enable it, you would need to make an API call such as put_bucket_request_payment():
Sets the request payment configuration for a bucket. By default, the bucket owner pays for downloads from the bucket. This configuration parameter enables the bucket owner (only) to specify that the person requesting the download will be charged for the download.
response = client.put_bucket_request_payment(
Bucket='string',
RequestPaymentConfiguration={
'Payer': 'Requester'|'BucketOwner'
}
)
This could be done by adding an AWS Lambda custom resource to the CloudFormation template, or by using the AWS CLI from an Amazon EC2 instance that is created as part of the stack.

Combine AWS CLI and CloudFormation?

I'm creating a new user pool in AWS Cognito. As you might know, CF support is missing for a lot of the features in Cognito, so I´ve resorted to using the CLI for Cognito. But I still want to use CloudFormation for other resources like API Gateway that will need to reference the new user pool.
Is there any way I can create parameters with the CLI that I can use in CloudFormation?
Yes, if you have Parameters in your template, then you can use the CloudFormation Deploy command to do exactly this.
For example, you can call aws cloudformation deploy --template-file <file_path> --stack-name <stack_name> --parameter-overrides ParameterKey1=ParameterValue1 ParameterKey2=ParameterValue2 ... where <file_path> is the path to your CloudFormation Template, and <stack_name> is the name of your CloudFormation Stack. If this stack doesn't exist yet, Deploy will create it, but if it does exist, Deploy will update it.