AWS CloudFormation
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Sep 12, 2026
Brian TellerHOST
AWS is explicitly telling teams to test their automation now.
Brian TellerHOST
Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, custom AMIs.
Brian TellerHOST
There are also preview limitations.
Brian TellerHOST
SSM Patch Manager does not currently support Amazon Linux 2027 preview.
Eric OstermanHOST
Well, I think that's all the demos I have lined up for today.
Eric OstermanHOST
Let's see if Murphy's Law, can you give a taste of CloudFormation support? Ah, yes.
Eric OstermanHOST
Actually, I was thinking of doing that.
Eric OstermanHOST
Hold on.
Eric OstermanHOST
I hit my rate limits temporarily there, but let's go into this and see where we're at.
Eric OstermanHOST
So Atmos build.
Eric OstermanHOST
So this is checking out the current status of our CloudFormation implementation.
Eric OstermanHOST
So what I can run now is Atmos AWS CFN help, and I'll see, oh, Atmos dev shell.
BaluHOST
Option A, manually configure each environment in the console.
BaluHOST
Option B, use AWS CloudFormation.
BaluHOST
Option C, AWS Config.
BaluHOST
and option D, Amazon CloudWatch.
BaluHOST
Let's pause here.
BaluHOST
The correct answer is option B, that's AWS CloudFormation.
BaluHOST
And here's why it's right.
BaluHOST
CloudFormation is AWS's infrastructure as code service.
Jarrett KeiferGUEST
Because it isn't really part of the code base, but it is necessary to run the code base.
Jarrett KeiferGUEST
So how do you have a source of truth for that? we ended up just a few weeks back creating a minimal CloudFormation template and putting that in the repo, despite the fact that we use Terraform for all of our main infrastructure as code, because we wanted something that wasn't opinionated, that was simple, and that was just that minimal set for reference.
Jarrett KeiferGUEST
And thus, the pendulum swings.
Jarrett KeiferGUEST
But this is OK, because this is how we learn.
Justin BrodleyHOST
This simplifies permission management for multi-account setups and multi-service integrations, since teams can now grant several service invokes access via one policy statement rather than maintaining separate entries.
Justin BrodleyHOST
Policies can be updated through the Lambda console, JSON editor, AWS CLI, SDKs, or infrastructure as code tools like CloudFormation and SAM, fitting existing deployment workflows.
Justin BrodleyHOST
It's available to all regions where IAM exists.
Ryan LucasHOST
Yeah, I didn't hit this particular edge case, but I can see how this would be useful.
Corey QuinnHOST
Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies.
Corey QuinnHOST
After 12 short years, my CloudFormation or CDK files for deploying Lambda's function, which, yes, is how you pluralize it, are no longer 80% IAM by volume.
Corey QuinnHOST
Unfortunately, this is just in time for me to not care since it's Claude's problem now.
Corey QuinnHOST
AWS Security Agent, now part of AWS Continuum, now supports budget controls and finding revalidation.
Ryan LucasHOST
mean, I prefer forcing people to use Vim and Emacs all the time, but whatever.
Justin BrodleyHOST
The editor supports standard GUI features like syntax, highlighting, find and replace, multi-line selection, and undo redo, addressing a long-standing friction point for users editing scripts, Lambda functions, or CloudFormation templates directly in the browser.
Justin BrodleyHOST
And
Ryan LucasHOST
I'd say this makes
PaulPANELIST
I just know it's interesting.
PaulPANELIST
You're considering CloudFormation for Atmos with rain going away, right?
Eric OstermanHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Eric OstermanHOST
More than considering it.
Eric OstermanHOST
Let me double check I didn't miss anything else then from the chat because that was an interesting one I wanted to discuss as well.
Eric OstermanHOST
I wonder if, was it a thread that was revived? Now I don't see the, I don't see it in our channel.
Eric OstermanHOST
Anyways, I'll just pull it up here So AWS Labs, I believe, had a project or AWS CloudFormation or GitHub organization had a relatively popular project called RAIN.
Eric OstermanHOST
It's been around for many years.
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Joe FergusonHOST
So we landed that, and then all of a sudden it was like, "Oh, hey, we need to adjust some SSL certificates, uh, for one of our security scans." It's like, "Oh, okay.
Joe FergusonHOST
This isn't that, that big of a deal." Now that I just spent two months putting everything in CloudFormation templates and building supporting scripts to do all of the infrastructure as cloud or infrastructure as code, not...
Joe FergusonHOST
Code, not infrastructure as cloud.
Joe FergusonHOST
So all of the templates and everything are built, so just swapping it over to another completely n- new environment was just no big deal and, and it's, it's just so cool f- uh, to me to be able to do that kind of stuff.
Romain JourdanHOST
OK.
Romain JourdanHOST
So basically, if I compare to what cloud engineers would know, building on AWS, it's like a CloudFormation template that we say, OK, I need this resource.
Romain JourdanHOST
I need those capabilities.
Romain JourdanHOST
Here is my system prompt.
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