AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Dan Blanco
Dan is a senior AWS Developer Advocate based in Atlanta for the AWS IaC team. When he’s not advocating for IaC tools, you can either find him in the kitchen whipping up something delicious or flying in the Georgia sky. Find him on twitter (@TheDanBlanco) or in the AWS CloudFormation Discord server
Introducing new language extensions in AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources, recently released a new language transform that enhances the core CloudFormation language. For our first release, these enhancements are new intrinsic functions for JSON string conversion (Fn::ToJsonString), length (Fn::Length), and support for intrinsic functions and pseudo-parameter […]
Remediate drift via resource import with AWS CloudFormation
When it comes to restaurants, consistency is key. Being able to create a salad once is simple, but being able to recreate the exact salad multiple times tends to be more difficult. Little variances between them may cause issues, like too much or not enough salad dressing, ruining the balance of the composed salad. Infrastructure […]
Managing multiple stacks and overriding parameters in AWS CloudFormation
In Q4 2018, the AWS CloudFormation team released a refreshed version of the management console as an opt-in experience. This redesign re-explored many of the common ways that you can interact with this service. In this post, I’d like to introduce a suite of updates that makes the redesign into the default console experience. The […]