A basic CloudFormation template for an RDS Aurora cluster.

RDS-Aurora-CloudFormation-Example.yaml

---
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Description: A basic CloudFormation template for an RDS Aurora cluster.
Parameters:
    DatabaseInstanceType:
        Default: db.r3.large
        AllowedValues:
            - db.r3.large
            - db.r3.xlarge
            - db.r3.2xlarge
            - db.r3.4xlarge
            - db.r3.8xlarge
        Description: The instance type to use for the database.
        Type: String
    DatabasePassword:
        AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z0-9]+"
        ConstraintDescription: must contain only alphanumeric characters.
        Description: The database admin account password.
        MaxLength: '41'
        MinLength: '8'
        NoEcho: 'true'
        Type: String
    DatabaseUsername:
        AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z0-9]+"
        ConstraintDescription: must contain only alphanumeric characters.
        Description: The database admin account user name.
        MaxLength: '16'
        MinLength: '1'
        Type: String
    DatabaseBackupRetentionPeriod:
        Type: String
        Default: 7
        AllowedValues:
            - 1
            - 7
        Description: The database backup retention period in days.
    DatabaseSubnets:
        Description: The subnets to place database instances in.
        Type: List<AWS::EC2::Subnet::Id>
    DatabaseSecurityGroups:
        Type: List<AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup::Id>
        Description: Security groups to apply to the RDS cluster.
Metadata:
    AWS::CloudFormation::Interface:
        ParameterGroups:
            - Label:
                default: Database Configuration
              Parameters:
                - DatabaseInstanceType
                - DatabaseName
                - DatabaseUsername
                - DatabasePassword
                - DatabaseSubnets
                - DatabaseSecurityGroups
                - DatabaseBackupRetentionPeriod
        ParameterLabels:
            DatabaseInstanceType:
                default: Database Instance Type
            DatabasePassword:
                default: Database Password
            DatabaseUsername:
                default: Database Username
            DatabaseBackupRetentionPeriod:
                default: Database Backup Retention Period
            DatabaseSubnets:
                default: Database Subnets
            DatabaseSecurityGroups:
                default: Database Security Groups
Resources:
    StackAlarmTopic:
        Type: AWS::SNS::Topic
        Properties:
            DisplayName: Stack Alarm Topic
    DatabaseSubnetGroup:
        Type: AWS::RDS::DBSubnetGroup
        Properties:
            DBSubnetGroupDescription: CloudFormation managed DB subnet group.
            SubnetIds:
                Ref: DatabaseSubnets
    DatabaseCluster:
        Type: AWS::RDS::DBCluster
        Properties:
            Engine: aurora
            MasterUsername:
                Ref: DatabaseUsername
            MasterUserPassword:
                Ref: DatabasePassword
            BackupRetentionPeriod:
                Ref: DatabaseBackupRetentionPeriod
            PreferredBackupWindow: 02:00-03:00
            PreferredMaintenanceWindow: mon:03:00-mon:04:00
            DBSubnetGroupName:
                Ref: DatabaseSubnetGroup
            VpcSecurityGroupIds:
                Ref: DatabaseSecurityGroups
    DatabasePrimaryInstance:
        Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
        Properties:
            Engine: aurora
            DBClusterIdentifier:
                Ref: DatabaseCluster
            DBInstanceClass:
                Ref: DatabaseInstanceType
            DBSubnetGroupName:
                Ref: DatabaseSubnetGroup
    DatabaseReplicaInstance:
        Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
        Properties:
            Engine: aurora
            DBClusterIdentifier:
                Ref: DatabaseCluster
            DBInstanceClass:
                Ref: DatabaseInstanceType
            DBSubnetGroupName:
                Ref: DatabaseSubnetGroup
    DatabasePrimaryCPUAlarm:
        Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
        Properties:
            AlarmDescription: Primary database CPU utilization is over 80%.
            Namespace: AWS/RDS
            MetricName: CPUUtilization
            Unit: Percent
            Statistic: Average
            Period: 300
            EvaluationPeriods: 2
            Threshold: 80
            ComparisonOperator: GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold
            Dimensions:
                - Name: DBInstanceIdentifier
                  Value:
                      Ref: DatabasePrimaryInstance
            AlarmActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
            InsufficientDataActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
    DatabaseReplicaCPUAlarm:
        Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
        Properties:
            AlarmDescription: Replica database CPU utilization is over 80%.
            Namespace: AWS/RDS
            MetricName: CPUUtilization
            Unit: Percent
            Statistic: Average
            Period: 300
            EvaluationPeriods: 2
            Threshold: 80
            ComparisonOperator: GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold
            Dimensions:
                - Name: DBInstanceIdentifier
                  Value:
                      Ref: DatabaseReplicaInstance
            AlarmActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
            InsufficientDataActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
    DatabasePrimaryMemoryAlarm:
        Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
        Properties:
            AlarmDescription: Primary database freeable memory is under 700MB.
            Namespace: AWS/RDS
            MetricName: FreeableMemory
            Unit: Bytes
            Statistic: Average
            Period: 300
            EvaluationPeriods: 2
            Threshold: 700000000
            ComparisonOperator: LessThanOrEqualToThreshold
            Dimensions:
                - Name: DBInstanceIdentifier
                  Value:
                      Ref: DatabasePrimaryInstance
            AlarmActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
            InsufficientDataActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
    DatabasePrimaryMemoryAlarm:
        Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
        Properties:
            AlarmDescription: Replica database freeable memory is under 700MB.
            Namespace: AWS/RDS
            MetricName: FreeableMemory
            Unit: Bytes
            Statistic: Average
            Period: 300
            EvaluationPeriods: 2
            Threshold: 700000000
            ComparisonOperator: LessThanOrEqualToThreshold
            Dimensions:
                - Name: DBInstanceIdentifier
                  Value:
                      Ref: DatabaseReplicaInstance
            AlarmActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
            InsufficientDataActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
    DatabasePrimaryReplicationAlarm:
        Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
        Properties:
            AlarmDescription: Database replication latency is over 200ms.
            Namespace: AWS/RDS
            MetricName: AuroraReplicaLag
            Unit: Milliseconds
            Statistic: Average
            Period: 300
            EvaluationPeriods: 2
            Threshold: 200
            ComparisonOperator: GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold
            Dimensions:
                - Name: DBInstanceIdentifier
                  Value:
                      Ref: DatabaseReplicaInstance
            AlarmActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic
    DatabaseReplicaReplicationAlarm:
        Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
        Properties:
            AlarmDescription: Database replication latency is over 200ms.
            Namespace: AWS/RDS
            MetricName: AuroraReplicaLag
            Unit: Milliseconds
            Statistic: Average
            Period: 300
            EvaluationPeriods: 2
            Threshold: 200
            ComparisonOperator: GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold
            Dimensions:
                - Name: DBInstanceIdentifier
                  Value:
                      Ref: DatabaseReplicaInstance
            AlarmActions:
                - Ref: StackAlarmTopic