AWS CloudFormation : Invalid template property or properties [Type, Properties]

Question

I am trying to Create a new Sql server - RDS instance (with more storage ) from an existing snapshot ID. Below is my CloudFormation template that's throwing the error:

"Template contains errors.: Invalid template property or properties [Type, Properties]"

"MyDB" : {
  "Type" : "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
    "Properties" : {
      "DBName" : { "Ref" : "NSGlobal" },
      "DBSnapshotIdentifier":"rds:xxxxxxxxx-2016-07-13-17-00",
      "AllocatedStorage" : "400",
      "DBInstanceClass" : "db.m2.xlarge",
      "EngineVersion" : "11.0"
    }
}

I copied this template from the AWS site http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-rds-database-instance.html#cfn-rds-dbinstance-masterusername and tailored it. what's the problem ?

Answer 1

This worked:

{
    "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
    "Resources" : {
        "DBInstance" : {
            "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
            "Properties": {
                "DBInstanceClass" : "db.m2.xlarge", 
                "AllocatedStorage" : "400", 
                "MasterUsername" : "myusername", 
                "MasterUserPassword" : "mypassword", 
                "DBSnapshotIdentifier":"xxxxxxxx-2016-07-13-17-00" 
            }
        }
    }
}

MasterUserName and MasterUserPassword are not mandatory, the template will be valid even without them.

Refer this thread for more information : Creating SQL RDS instance in CloudFormation