How to Make Friendly Parameters for the CloudFormation Console

Kelli Mohr
Slalom Technology
Published in
2 min readApr 23, 2018

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Ever order your AWS CloudFormation template parameters perfectly and find out the console lists them in alphabetical order, like the picture below?

Default CloudFormation Parameter Display

Wish you could change parameter labels to something easier to understand rather than a parameter id?

Want to group information together in a meaningful way, such as instance…

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Kelli Mohr
Slalom Technology

Spend my days in the Cloud. Keep things simple and efficient. Software Engineer. DevOps Enthusiast. Agile Evangelist. Amateur farmer.