Velocity for complex CloudFormation templates
Cloudformation as a description language With AWS CloudFormation, (almost) all AWS service can be described in a configuration language. This enables scripting of AWS infrastructure. Thus, AWS resources are well documented. The templates can also be stored and versioned in configuration systems, e.g. CodeCommit. So CloudFormation has many advantages. However, one disadvantage is that CloudFormation templates quickly become very large. What to do? Fortunately, there are several approaches to deal with the complexity.