HoztedZone error on cloudformation - amazon-web-services

Question

I´m using cloudformation to create a ecs container and add this new container into route53 hostzone.
But when I run this script I´m having problems with the HostedZone tags
Here The error
A client error (ValidationError) occurred when calling the CreateStack operation: Invalid template parameter property 'Properties'
Here the json
"Parameters" : {
"InstanceType" : {
"Description" : "Container Instance type",
"Type" : "String",
"Default" : "t2.medium",
"AllowedValues" : [ "t2.micro", "t2.small", "t2.medium", "m3.medium", "m3.large", "m3.xlarge", "m3.2xlarge" ],
"ConstraintDescription" : "must be a valid EC2 instance type."
},
"HostedZone" : {
"Type": "AWS::Route53::HostedZone",
"Properties": {
"HostedZoneConfig": {
"Comment": "My hosted zone for example.com"
},
"Name": "***.couchbase.com",
"VPCs": [
{
"VPCId": "*********",
"VPCRegion": "eu-west-1"
}
],
"HostedZoneTags": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": "Couchbase DNS"
}
]
}
}
},
"Resources" : {
"ContainerInstance" : {
"Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
"Properties": {
"Tags": [{
"Key" : "Name",
"Value" : "Couchbase-1"
},
{
"Key" : "Type",
"Value" : "ECS-Couchbase"
}],
"IamInstanceProfile" : { "Ref" : "ECSIamInstanceProfile" },
"ImageId" : { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "AWSRegionArch2AMI", { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" },
{ "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "AWSInstanceType2Arch", { "Ref" : "InstanceType" }, "Arch" ] } ] },
"InstanceType" : { "Ref" : "InstanceType" },
"SecurityGroups" : [ "ssh","default", "couchbase" ],
"KeyName" : { "Ref" : "KeyName" },
"UserData" : { "Fn::Base64" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
"#!/bin/bash -xe\n",
"echo ECS_CLUSTER=", { "Ref" : "ClusterName" },
" >> /etc/ecs/ecs.config\n"
]]}}
}
},
"CouchbaseDNSRecord" : {
"Type" : "AWS::Route53::RecordSet",
"Properties" : {
"HostedZoneName" : {
"Fn::Join" : [ "", [
{ "Ref" : "HostedZone" }, "."
] ]
},
"Comment" : "DNS name for my instance.",
"Name" : {
"Fn::Join" : [ "", [
{"Ref" : "ContainerInstance"}, ".",
{"Ref" : "AWS::Region"}, ".",
{"Ref" : "HostedZone"} ,"."
] ]
},
"Type" : "A",
"TTL" : "900",
"ResourceRecords" : [
{ "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "ContainerInstance", "PublicIp" ] }
]
}
},

Answer 1

The HostedZone should be inside the Resources section.
"Parameters" : {
"InstanceType" : {
...
}
},
"Resources" : {
"HostedZone" : {
...
},
"ContainerInstance" : {
...
},
...
}

Answer 2

All the resources you want to create using Cloudformation should be within the resources section. This gives a better anatomy of the template, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/template-anatomy.html