I Tested Whether cdkd Really Deploys Faster Than cdk deploy
A tool claiming "up to 15x faster than cdk deploy" showed up in my feed a while back. Drop-in...
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Sep 1, 2026AutoScalingInstanceRefresh in CloudFormation: Pattern Teardown
Technical teardown of the new AutoScalingInstanceRefresh CloudFormation update policy: anatomy, trade-offs, anti-patterns, and reference design for
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Aug 28, 2026cfn_nag finds problems in templates. Stave finds problems in reality.
cfn_nag scans CloudFormation templates for insecure patterns. Stave evaluates observed infrastructure state with duration tracking, multi-cloud support, and formal proof of compliance. Here's where they overlap, where they diverge, and why you might need both.
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Aug 7, 2026AWS's new IaC MCP server lets your AI assistant lint CloudFormation and correlate CloudTrail
AWS has published a walkthrough of an Infrastructure as Code MCP Server that exposes four tools to any MCP-compatible AI assistant: CloudFormation docs search, cfn-lint validation, cfn-guard compliance checks, and CloudTrail-correlated troubleshooting. Kiro is the assistant AWS uses in the demo.
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The Deployer agent and the multi-tenant backend
The last agent in the pipeline refuses to run if the Tester said the game was broken. Then it deploys to CloudFront and a shared multi-tenant serverless backend. Here's what went wrong — in CloudFormation's dialect.
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Jul 29, 2026Automating Amazon EVS (Elastic VMware Service) Day-0 to Day-2 Operations with CloudFormation and Step Functions
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) reached general availability in August 2025, enabling customers...
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Jul 4, 2026CloudFormation Express mode ships, returning success before resources are ready
AWS added an Express deployment mode to CloudFormation that reports stack operations complete as soon as resource configuration is applied, with resources continuing to become available in the background. Rollback is disabled by default.
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Jul 3, 2026CloudFormation now validates every stack operation, not only change sets
AWS extended CloudFormation's pre-deployment validation to run automatically on CreateStack and UpdateStack, alongside CreateChangeSet. It hard-fails property errors and name conflicts before a stack starts rolling, with a softer warning tier that still lives only on change sets.
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Jul 30, 2026Learning AWS CloudFormation: A Practical Introduction
AWS CloudFormation lets you manage your AWS infrastructure using code. Instead of setting up...
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Jun 25, 2026Catching Risky IAM in CloudFormation Templates Before You Deploy
Originally published at shieldly.io/blog. Most IAM security conversations center on the AWS...
Jun 25, 20262 min read0 reactions0 comments
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Jul 2, 2026CloudFormation rolled back our template but not our infrastructure
Imagine this: you just released a critical update on your network infrastructure via Cloudformation,...
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Jun 19, 2026Infrastructure as Code Security: Scanning Terraform and CloudFormation
Learn how to secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with automated scanning of Terraform and CloudFormation templates using Checkov, tfsec, cfn-nag, and
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