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Author: Gokul Sarangaraju
Gokul Sarangaraju is a Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS. He helps customers adopt AWS services and provides guidance in AWS cost and usage optimization. His areas of expertise include delivering solutions using CloudFormation and automation. Outside of work, he enjoys playing volleyball and poker - Set, Spike, All-In!
Four ways to retrieve any AWS service property using AWS CloudFormation (Part 3 of 3)
This post is the last in a series on how to build customizations using AWS CloudFormation. In part 1, we introduced you to cfn-response and crhelper and discussed the scenarios they are best suited for. In part 2, we addressed a coverage gap in our public roadmap and showed you how to build an AWS […]
Four ways to retrieve any AWS service property using AWS CloudFormation (Part 2 of 3)
This post is the second in a series on how to build customizations using AWS CloudFormation. In part 1, we showed you how to develop customizations using cfn-response and crhelper and shared the scenarios they are best suited for. In this post, we’ll use AWS CloudFormation macros to address some of the coverage gaps identified […]
Four ways to retrieve any AWS service property using AWS CloudFormation (Part 1 of 3)
Many of you have experience using AWS CloudFormation to automate your application deployments. As you probably know, the service supports around 600 types of resources. When you optimize your templates, you might have discovered that each of those resource types encapsulates native AWS SDK API calls to create or update each resource’s state or configuration. You […]