Aws Cloudformation Vpc

The aws-cloudformation-vpc skill enables AI agents to programmatically provision and manage Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources using AWS CloudFormation. It automates the creation of isolated network environments, including subnets, route tables, internet gateways, and security groups. This capability ensures consistent infrastructure deployment across development, staging, and production environments.

When to use it

• Automatically spin up a complete VPC structure for a new microservice project without manual console navigation.
• Enforce organizational network standards by applying predefined CloudFormation templates to multiple accounts simultaneously.
• Rapidly decommission unused VPCs and associated networking resources to reduce cloud costs.
• Test infrastructure-as-code changes in an isolated environment before promoting them to production.

Key capabilities

• Deploys full VPC configurations including public and private subnets.
• Configures internet gateways, NAT gateways, and route tables automatically.
• Manages security groups with specified ingress and egress rules.
• Utilizes AWS CloudFormation templates for idempotent resource creation.

Example prompts

"Create a new VPC in us-east-1 with two public subnets and one private subnet using the standard developer template." "Update the existing production VPC to add a NAT gateway for the private subnets and adjust security group rules to allow HTTPS traffic." "Delete all resources associated with the 'dev-vpc' stack, including internet gateways and route tables."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure you have appropriate IAM permissions to execute CloudFormation changes in your target AWS account. Always validate CloudFormation templates against your organization's network compliance requirements before deployment.