Negate a Condition in CloudFormation Template

Question

I have the following condition, accordingly to that condition I create some resources, while if that condition is not met then I create other resources.

Conditions:   ISProduction:     "Fn::Equals":       - !Ref Environment       - staging   ISNotProduction:       "Fn::Not":         - !Ref ISProduction 

However, when I try to evaluate the template with the snippet above I get the error:

Template error: every Fn::Not object requires one boolean parameter

How can I negate a condition in a Cloud Formation Template? Or how can I use the negation of ISProduction?

I also tried the Condition below in a resource creation, but I but the template do not pass the validation because "Every Condition member must be a string".

Condition:       "Fn::Not":         - !Ref ISProduction 

Answer 1

You can reference other conditions by using the Condition key before your Condition Logical ID.

Associating a Condition

To conditionally create resources, resource properties, or outputs, you must associate a condition with them. Add the Condition: key and the logical ID of the condition as an attribute to associate a condition, as shown in the following snippet. AWS CloudFormation creates the NewVolume resource only when the CreateProdResources condition evaluates to true.

Your example should look like this:

Conditions:   ISProduction:     "Fn::Equals":       - !Ref Environment       - staging   ISNotProduction:       "Fn::Not":         - Condition: ISProduction 

Optionally you can write it in the short form:

Conditions:   ISProduction:     !Equals [!Ref Environment, staging]   ISNotProduction:     !Not [Condition: ISProduction]