diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..320417a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+cfn/cloudformation-examples/
diff --git a/tools/fetch-cloudformation-examples b/tools/fetch-cloudformation-examples
index 4650dd2a..a1a05b76 100755
--- a/tools/fetch-cloudformation-examples
+++ b/tools/fetch-cloudformation-examples
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import xml.etree.ElementTree as xml
 basepath = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(sys.argv[0],
     os.path.pardir,
     os.path.pardir,
-    'templates',
+    'cfn',
     'cloudformation-examples'))
 
 bucket = 'cloudformation-templates-us-east-1'