I am looking for small help in CloudFormation and could not find help from documentation or may be not searching the question in right way.
Here is the question.
I am getting availability zones for the environment from mappings as follows.
"AvailabilityZone": {
"Fn::Select": [
"1",
{
"Fn::FindInMap": [
"Environment",
{
"Ref": "EnvType"
},
"AvailabilityZones"
]
}
]
}
I need to use the AZ name in my volume naming convention. How could refer the derived variable "AvailabilityZone" again.?
Currently i am doing this.
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": {
"Fn::Join": [
"-",
[
{
"Ref": "NamePrefix"
},
{
"Ref": "EnvType"
},
"myconstant",
{
"Fn::Select": [
"2",
{
"Fn::Split": [
"-",
{
"Fn::Select": [
"1",
{
"Fn::FindInMap": [
"Environment",
{
"Ref": "EnvType"
},
"AvailabilityZones"
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
]
}
}
I am doing the same code twice. How can i re-use the derived variable here.?