AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Craig Lefkowitz
Craig Lefkowitz is a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS CloudFormation. When not writing blogs or coding, Craig works with customers helping them adopt modern cloud development and operations practices through automation. Prior to his current role, Craig worked as both an AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Professional Services consultant for enterprise customers, as well as, state and local governments. Craig can be reached directly through his Twitter account @CraigLefkowitz.
Introducing TypeScript support for building AWS CloudFormation resource types
If you’ve authored private resource types to extend the AWS CloudFormation registry, you might have used Java, Python, or Go, which, until now, were our officially supported languages. In this blog post, we will show you how to create a private resource type using TypeScript, the latest addition to our growing list of officially supported […]
Running bash commands in AWS CloudFormation templates
Oftentimes we find customers who want to extend their AWS CloudFormation templates by running a few lines of code during template execution. For example, to call an external API. In these cases, customers were directed to use either custom resources, resource types, or macros to accomplish the task. This is such a common pattern that […]
Managing resources using AWS CloudFormation Resource Types
Both custom resources and resource types are used to create an AWS CloudFormation resource that allow you to manage third-party resources. For example, during the creation of a simple website you may want to provision a third-party website monitor, which has a public API. In this case, you would develop and use a resource that […]