AWS CloudFormation Now Supports Federated Users and Temporary Security Credentials

Today AWS CloudFormation released added support for  temporary security credentials provided by the AWS Security Token Service.  This release enables a number of scenarios such as federated users being able to use CloudFormation from the AWS Management Console and authorizing Amazon EC2 instances with IAM roles to call CloudFormation APIs.  To learn more about this new feature, please read the post from the AWS Blog.

– Ben