July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
402 pages
9h 38m
English
Our template only includes a web server and a security group that makes updating CloudFormation a fairly harmless operation. Furthermore, our change was fairly trivial as AWS could simply update the existing security group as opposed to having to replace it. As you can imagine, as the architecture becomes more and more complex so does the CloudFormation template. Depending on the update you want to perform, you might encounter unexpected changes when you review the change set in the final step of updating a template.
AWS offers an alternate and safer way to update templates. The feature is called Change Sets and is accessible from the CloudFormation console:
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