Creating resource groups with AWS CloudFormation

AWS Resource Groups is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a service that helps you to model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all of the AWS resources that you want (such as resource groups), and CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.

When you use CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your resource groups consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resource groups once, and then provision the same resource groups over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions.

Resource Groups and CloudFormation templates

To provision and configure resources for Resource Groups and related services, you must understand CloudFormation templates. Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with CloudFormation templates. For more information, see What is CloudFormation Designer? in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Resource Groups supports creating resource groups in CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for resource groups, see the AWS Resource Groups resource type reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Learn more about CloudFormation

To learn more about CloudFormation, see the following resources: