AWS DevOps Blog

A Few New CloudFormation Features for the New Year

Earlier this afternoon CloudFormation launched a few new features that you might be interested in:

  • More Parameters and Outputs – CloudFormation now supports up to 60 parameters and 60 ouputs per stack. 
  • New Auto Scaling Featuers – Support for the new Auto Scaling features that were launched today, including EBS PIOPS in your Launch Configurations.
  • Expanded SQS Support – Queues and Queue Policies now support Updates, and you can specify additional Queue properties like VisibilityTimeout.

Check out the release notes and forum post for details!