title: Cloudformation template for AmazonRDSEnhancedMonitoringRole
body: <p>I am attempting to spin up an RDS stack via a Cloudformation template. I would like to enable Enhanced Monitoring on my DB instances. In order to do that, the <code>MonitoringRoleArn</code> property must be specified on the resource. </p>
  
  <p>As I understand it, this ARN should point to an IAM Service Role that has been given the <code>AmazonRDSEnhancedMonitoringRole</code> policy, as described here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_Monitoring.OS.html" rel="noreferrer">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_Monitoring.OS.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I would ideally like to also create that role via Cloudformation. For the life of me, however, I can not find an example of how to do this in a Cloudformation template. And it turns out that the Cloudformer tool does not analyze IAM resources.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone done this? Can you share an example?</p>