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Building a CI/CD pipeline to update an AWS CloudFormation StackSets

AWS CloudFormation StackSets can extend the functionality of CloudFormation Stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete one or more stack across multiple accounts. As a developer working in a large enterprise or for a group that supports multiple AWS accounts, you may often find yourself challenged with updating AWS CloudFormation StackSets. If you’re building a CI/CD pipeline to automate the process of updating CloudFormation stacks, you can do so natively.

The workflow can either create or manipulate an existing stack; however, working with AWS CloudFormation StackSets is currently not a supported action at the time of this writing. You can update an existing CloudFormation stack using one of two methods: You have several options when building a CI/CD pipeline to automate creating or updating a stack.