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I've got a CloudFormation script that generates a SecurityGroup and an ELB; I'm trying to reference the SecurityGroup in the ELB creation; here's the resources bit:

    "ELBSecurityGroup" : {

        "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",

        "Properties" : {

            "GroupDescription" : "Security group for the Arena dev stack",

            "SecurityGroupIngress" : [

                {"IpProtocol" : "tcp", "FromPort" : 80, "ToPort" : 80, "CidrIp" : { "Ref" : "OfficeIp" }}

            ]

        }

    },

    "ProjectLoadBalancerTest" : {

        "Type" : "AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer",

        "Properties" : {

            "AvailabilityZones" : { "Fn::GetAZs" : "" },

            "Instances" : [  ],

            "Listeners" : [ {

                "LoadBalancerPort" : "80",

                "InstancePort" : "12345",

                "Protocol" : "HTTP"

            } ],

            "HealthCheck" : {

                "Target" : {

                    "Fn::Join" : [ "", [ "HTTP:", "12345", "/status.json" ] ]

                },

                "HealthyThreshold" : "2",

                "UnhealthyThreshold" : "5",

                "Interval" : "60",

                "Timeout" : "30"

            },

            "SecurityGroups" : [

                { "Ref" : "ELBSecurityGroup" }

            ]

        }

    }

Unfortunately, this fails with:

Invalid id: "sebelbtest2-ELBSecurityGroup-1F5Z5DIIVQKD1" (expecting "sg-...")

So how can I reference ELBSecurityGroup for use as a property in the ELB creation?

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As mytwocents mentioned, the solution is to use Fn::GetAtt. SecurityGroups are now supported by this function: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/intrinsic-function-reference-getatt.html

This works on the ELB:

...

"SecurityGroups" : [

    { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "ELBSecurityGroup", "GroupId" ] }

]

...

Note. If you're putting this into a non-default VPC you'll also need to specify the VPC for the security group, and a subnet ID for the ELB.

You can read more about Elastic Load Balancing on AWS Elb.

To learn more about CloudFormation, you can visit AWS Cloudformation.

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