Journey of creating a new AWS CloudFormation resource

TL;DR

I created a new CloudFormation resource in the AwsCommunity organization with Python, created a new Troposphere resource for it, and now can use it in production.

The why

AWS CloudFormation (CFN) is my favorite Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service to use with AWS. However, some resources might not have a CloudFormation equivalent created by the respective product team, for various possible reasons.

So then, you have to either use another IaC tool (i.e. Ansible), create a CustomResource (lambda function …

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