Serverless/Cloudformation resource that depends on the existence of another resource - amazon-web-services

Question

I'm trying to use the Serverless Framework to deploy a Kinesis Firehose that outputs to an ElasticSearch domain.
Since the Firehose needs the ES domain to already exist before it can be created, I am running into this error:
An error occurred: MyFirehoseStream - Domain
arn:aws:es:us-east-1:1234567890:domain/my-elastic-search is still
being created.
Is there a way to make the Firehose creation wait until after the ES domain creation is complete?
Just in case its helpful, here are the relevant parts of my serverless.yml file:
fyi, I'm using the serverless-pseudo-parameters plugin to use #{AWS::Region} and #{AWS::AccountId}
resources:
Resources:
MyFirehoseStream:
Type: "AWS::KinesisFirehose::DeliveryStream"
Properties:
DeliveryStreamName: "MyFirehoseStream"
DeliveryStreamType: "DirectPut"
ElasticsearchDestinationConfiguration:
BufferingHints:
IntervalInSeconds: 300
SizeInMBs: 5
DomainARN: "arn:aws:es:#{AWS::Region}:#{AWS::AccountId}:domain/my-elastic-search"
IndexName: "myindex"
IndexRotationPeriod: "NoRotation"
RetryOptions:
DurationInSeconds: 300
RoleARN: { "Fn::GetAtt": ["FirehoseBackupBucketRole", "Arn" ] }
S3BackupMode: "FailedDocumentsOnly"
S3Configuration:
BucketARN: { "Fn::GetAtt": ["FirehoseBackupBucket", "Arn" ] }
BufferingHints:
IntervalInSeconds: 300
SizeInMBs: 5
CompressionFormat: "GZIP"
RoleARN: { "Fn::GetAtt": ["FirehoseBackupBucketRole", "Arn" ] }
TypeName: "mytype"
MyElasticSearch:
Type: "AWS::Elasticsearch::Domain"
Properties:
AccessPolicies: ${file(./iam_policies/elastic-search.json)}
DomainName: "my-elastic-search"
ElasticsearchVersion: 6.2
ElasticsearchClusterConfig:
InstanceCount: "1"
InstanceType: "t2.small.elasticsearch"
EBSOptions:
EBSEnabled: true
Iops: 0
VolumeSize: 10
VolumeType: "gp2"
UPDATE:
I have this fixed now, so in case the specifics are helpful for anyone:
I changed the DomainARN property to { "Fn::GetAtt": ["MyElasticSearch", "DomainArn" ] }.
The reason I was originally generating the ARN dynamically was because with "Fn::GetAtt" I originally tried to use just Arn instead of DomainArn, which didn't work. Coincidentally though, DomainArn has been deprecated in the latest version, so if you are using the latest version, Arn actually would be correct.

Answer 1

Cloudformation resources support the DependsOn attribute.
resources:
Resources:
MyFirehoseStream:
Type: "AWS::KinesisFirehose::DeliveryStream"
DependsOn: MyElasticSearch
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-attribute-dependson.html