Change sets
Once we have deployed our template and our stack has created successfully, we might have a need to introduce changes to the environment. There are several ways to approach upgrading an application, such as by performing an in-place upgrade or a blue-green deployment, and all of those depend on the level of disruption we can withstand during the updating of the application.
Within CloudFormation, we can use the change sets feature to perform updates on the infrastructure. With change sets, we have the ability to modify our running environment and view the modifications in the management console before we decide to deploy the changes to the running stack. Three possible levels of disruption a change set can cause once deployed to ...
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