title: In AWS CloudFormation is it possible to create a number of EC2 instances with the values from Mappings without AutoScaling group?
body: <p>Let's say I want to create EC2 instances one per each InstanceType and otherwise they are the same.</p>
  
  <p>So I would create a Mapping like this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
  <pre><code>"Mappings" : {
      "MyAWSInstanceTypes" : [
        "t1.micro",
        "m1.small",
        "m1.medium",
        "m1.large",
        "m1.xlarge",
        "m3.xlarge",
        "m3.2xlarge",
        "m2.xlarge",
        "m2.2xlarge",
        "m2.4xlarge",
        "c1.medium",
        "c1.xlarge",
        "cc1.4xlarge",
        "cc2.8xlarge",
        "cg1.4xlarge",
        "hi1.4xlarge",
        "hs1.8xlarge"
      ],
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>and later on I would like to have</p>
  
  <blockquote>
  <pre><code> "Resources" : {  
      "MyEc2Instances" : {    
               "Type" :
                   "AWS::EC2::Instance",
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>where I would magically get all my instance types created as per mapping.</p>
  
  <p>Is that possible without AutoScaling?</p>