2 years ago

In this post, we’ll cover recent AWS news, including CloudFormation template debugging getting way easier, AWS’s IoT suite landing some handy new features, and how we can now add our own widgets to CloudWatch dashboards. Debugging CloudFormation templates always reminded me of that story in Greek mythology where the guy’s trying to push the boulder up the hill only to have it roll all the way back down.

Well, thankfully we now have an option to disable automatic rollback and keep all those successfully created resources intact while we figure out what went wrong with that step 21.

We can add our own graphy or charty things from data sources outside AWS, and we can even create buttons and other controls that launch things. For example, we can provide links to run books or automated remediation processes should our dashboards indicate something is amiss.