CloudFormation Micro-Templates

ACM.285 Why I put a single resource in each CloudFormation template

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
Published in
7 min readAug 16, 2023

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In the last post I wrote about how to make CloudFormation faster, since that was the source of a problem that caused someone to ask me how to avoid using CloudFormation altogether.

I have just one more follow up post from the AWS Heroes event at the moment. I’ve written about this concept before but I’m going to summarize it in a single post so I can refer to it if needed. I realized as I was trying to explain the concept and why I do it that I don’t have any single post on the topic. I just started doing what I always do when I began writing this now somewhat lengthy series.

The topic seemed to come up a lot in discussions in terms of how to solve various problems and why certain things…

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

CEO 2nd Sight Lab | Penetration Testing & Assessments | AWS Hero | Masters of Infosec & Software Engineering | GSE 240 etc | IANS | SANS Difference Makers Award