Accelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEs

AWS CloudFormation Language Server Launch

AWS CloudFormation introduces the AWS CloudFormation Language Server, enhancing intelligent authoring, validation, and drift management within IDEs like Visual Studio and Kiro through the AWS Toolkit. This feature provides context-aware authoring with auto-complete, schema validation, policy checks, and deployment validation, helping developers identify issues before deployment and maintain compliance.

Key Features

• Intelligent Authoring: Context-aware auto-complete, schema validation, and policy checks.
• Early Validation: Flags invalid properties and missing permissions.
• Drift Management: Highlights differences between templates and deployed infrastructure.
• Deployment Validation: Validates deployments directly within the IDE.

What to do

• Install or upgrade the AWS Toolkit.
• Refer to the AWS CloudFormation Language Server documentation for more information.

Source: AWS release notes

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