diff --git a/moto/cloudformation/parsing.py b/moto/cloudformation/parsing.py
index f569f6a8..690b9563 100644
--- a/moto/cloudformation/parsing.py
+++ b/moto/cloudformation/parsing.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from moto.kms import models as kms_models
 from moto.rds import models as rds_models
 from moto.redshift import models as redshift_models
 from moto.route53 import models as route53_models
+from moto.s3 import models as s3_models
 from moto.sns import models as sns_models
 from moto.sqs import models as sqs_models
 from .utils import random_suffix
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ MODEL_MAP = {
     "AWS::Route53::RecordSet": route53_models.RecordSet,
     "AWS::Route53::RecordSetGroup": route53_models.RecordSetGroup,
     "AWS::SNS::Topic": sns_models.Topic,
+    "AWS::S3::Bucket": s3_models.FakeBucket,
     "AWS::SQS::Queue": sqs_models.Queue,
 }
 
diff --git a/moto/s3/models.py b/moto/s3/models.py
index ec1ac46d..e9afa617 100644
--- a/moto/s3/models.py
+++ b/moto/s3/models.py
@@ -288,6 +288,16 @@ class FakeBucket(object):
     def set_acl(self, acl):
         self.acl = acl
 
+    @property
+    def physical_resource_id(self):
+        return self.name
+
+    @classmethod
+    def create_from_cloudformation_json(
+            cls, resource_name, cloudformation_json, region_name):
+        bucket = s3_backend.create_bucket(resource_name, region_name)
+        return bucket
+
 
 class S3Backend(BaseBackend):