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AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review
- AWS CloudFormation in 2024 underwent several enhancements to accelerate the development cycle, simplify troubleshooting, and introduce new deployment safety features.
- Optimistic stabilization with the CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE event enabled up to 40% faster stack creation times.
- Introduced early validation checks to catch template errors before deployment, reducing manual steps required for a successful deployment.
- Enhanced deletion controls in May with a new DeletionMode parameter for better stack cleanup, especially for DELETE_FAILED state stacks.
- Introduced ServiceTimeout property for custom resources in June to set custom timeout values, improving development feedback loops.
- Launched integration with AWS CloudTrail in May for streamlined troubleshooting, providing direct links to relevant CloudTrail events.
- Deployment timeline view introduced in November for visualization of the stack operations sequence and resource provisioning.
- CloudFormation IaC Generator launched in February to simplify onboarding existing cloud resources to CloudFormation with over 600 AWS resource types support.
- Major enhancements to CloudFormation Hooks in November for proactive configuration controls, including stack and change set target invocation points and managed hooks for Guard Language and Lambda functions.
- Additional improvements included StackSets ListStackSetAutoDeploymentTargets API and CloudFormation Git sync with pull request workflow support.
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