reverse engineer an aws installation

Question

Given an existing VPC with an RDS instance is there a tool that I can use to reverse engineer a script (e.g. an Ansible playbook) that will regenerate all of the objects in the VPC & RDS configuration (e.g. security groups, subnets, configuration, etc)?

Answer 1

CloudFormer attempts to do this. It isn't perfect, generally speaking it's important to be cloudformation-literate if you choose this option.

Otherwise, it's a great learning exercise (and stack planning exercise) to iteratively build your stack from scratch.