AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup

The AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup resource creates a cache security group. For more information about cache security groups, go to Cache Security Groups in the Amazon ElastiCache User Guide or go to CreateCacheSecurityGroup in the Amazon ElastiCache API Reference Guide.

To create an ElastiCache cluster in a VPC, use the AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup resource. For more information, see the VpcSecurityGroupIds property in the AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster resource.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

{
  "Type" : "AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup",
  "Properties" :
  {
    "Description" : String
  }
}

Type: AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup
Properties:
  Description: String

Properties

Return Values

Ref

When you specify the AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup resource as an argument to the Ref function, AWS CloudFormation returns the CacheSecurityGroupName property of the cache security group.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.

On this page:

• Syntax
• Properties
• Return Values