creating a route 53 A record pointing to an elastic ip

cloudformation_a_record_from_eip.json

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "aRecord": {
      "Properties": {
        "HostedZoneId": {
          "Ref": "hostedZone"
        },
        "Name": "test.mmbtest.com",
        "ResourceRecords": [
          {
            "Ref": "eip"
          }
        ],
        "TTL": 300,
        "Type": "A"
      },
      "Type": "AWS::Route53::RecordSet"
    },
    "eip": {
      "Properties": {
        "Domain": "vpc"
      },
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::EIP"
    },
    "hostedZone": {
      "Properties": {
        "Name": "mmbtest.com"
      },
      "Type": "AWS::Route53::HostedZone"
    }
  }
}