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AWS Administration Cookbook
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AWS Administration Cookbook

by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
394 pages
10h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Permissions and service roles

One important thing to remember about CloudFormation is that it's more or less just making API calls on your behalf. This means that CloudFormation will assume the very same permissions or role you use to execute your template. If you don't have permission to create a new hosted zone in Route 53, for example, any template you try to run that contains a new Route 53-hosted zone will fail.

On the flip side, this has created a somewhat tricky situation where anyone developing CloudFormation typically has a very elevated level of privileges, and these privileges are somewhat unnecessarily granted to CloudFormation each time a template is executed.

If my CloudFormation template contains only one resource, which is ...

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ISBN: 9781787127630