Fix CloudFormation, Pretty Please
Talking to a client and was reminded of these issues that still need to be addressed by CloudFormation
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As I’ve written about before I love CloudFormation for it’s benefits — which are huge if you understand the underlying security implications. But it has issues. We can all love things or people with issues for the benefits they provide, but wouldn’t it be great if they could fix the issues?
I was just talking to a client today and decided to churn out this post to revisit the issues most of which we agree on. If AWS could fix these things, CloudFormation would be easier to use…