Creating an Aurora Serverless Cluster from cloudformation?

Question

From Aurora Serverless's document, there are 3 ways to create an Aurora serverless DB cluster: AWS management console, CLI, and RDS API. (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/aurora-serverless.create.html)

Form my understanding, one would use EngineMode in the RDS API to create Aurora Serverless, but this property is not available in AWS::RDS::DBCluster yet (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-rds-dbcluster.html).

Would it be possible to create an Aurora Serverless Cluster from cloudformation? Any advice would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Thanks for Chris's update. As an example, here is my cloudFormation template for serverless aurora. We no longer need the DBInstance.

  RDSCluster:     Type: AWS::RDS::DBCluster     Properties:       MasterUsername:          Ref: DBUsername       MasterUserPassword:          Ref: DBPassword       DatabaseName: RANDOMNAME       Engine: aurora       EngineMode: serverless       ScalingConfiguration:         AutoPause: true         MaxCapacity: 16         MinCapacity: 2         SecondsUntilAutoPause: 300       DBSubnetGroupName:         Ref: DBSubnetGroup 

More complete example of all available options for RDS (including Aurora): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-rds-dbcluster.html