An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the CreateChangeSet operation: Template format error: Parameter name group_name_param is non alphanumeric.

AWS Naming Conventions — again — CloudFormation

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AWS naming conventions again. The platform is completely inconsistent as I just wrote about in another post. Why in the world does CloudFormation care if I have an _ in the name of a parameter? But it does.

So instead of this in my CloudFormation template:

Parameters:
  group_name_param:
    Type: String

I changed it to this:

Parameters:
  groupnameparam:
    Type: String

I don’t really like camel case. I wish I could just use underscores. But that solves it.

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