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Autocomplete your CloudFormation Resources in VS Code

Written on December 29, 2020 by Danny Steenman. If you use AWS CloudFormation to provision your infrastructure, it can be time-consuming to constantly visit the AWS documentation in order to find the right property of each resource type. To solve this problem, I created a VS Code extension that adds autocompletion for https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-template-resource-type-ref.html in a CloudFormation template.

The VS Code extension contains the following features: Autocompletion for every AWS CloudFormation resource type (including properties).

Here is a small demo that shows what happens when you're trying to add a new CloudFormation resource with the VS Code extension enabled: Steps described in further detail: Step Install the https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dsteenman.cloudformation-yaml-snippets in your VS Code editor