Creating a new queue with specific name using cloudFormation

Question

Is it possible to create a queue with a specific name via cloudFormation? I assumed so, becouse it's possible to choose a name when I create the queue via UI or java API, but I couldn't find a way to do this with cloudFormation.

Answer 1

Amazon have just released the ability to do this in Cloudformation via user defined names. An example queue name template is defined where you add a new properties QueueName to the properties of the queue - for example

Resources: {
    MyQueue: {
        Type: "AWS::SQS::Queue",
        Properties: {
            QueueName: {"MyOwnQueueName"}
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

here is a sample template for the cloudformation docs:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-1/SQS.template

and here the docs for the corresponding AWS::SQS::Queue object: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-sqs-queues.html

to make it more clear:

"Resources" : {
    "The Name of your queue" : {
        "Type" : "AWS::SQS::Queue"
   }
},

The final name of the queue will be:

{stack name}-{the name you specified for the queue}-{some random hash?}

not sure about the last part.
for example if you name you stack testStack and your queue testQueueName you will end up with something like this:
testStack-testQueueName-1PTTUS9YD37S5

however, you should maybe not relay on some suffixes or prefixes, you can get the queue names in the template and write it to a file with in the same cloudformation template