How we sped up AWS CloudFormation deployments with optimistic stabilization
DevOps & Developer Productivity Blog
This post explains how AWS CloudFormation ensures safe and reliable resource provisioning through resource stabilization and introduces a new optimistic stabilization strategy that significantly improves deployment times.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Resource dependencies and resource provisioning time factors in CloudFormation
- What is resource stabilization and its importance for reliable deployments
- CloudFormation's historic stabilization strategy and its limitations
- The new optimistic stabilization strategy and how it speeds up deployments by up to 40%
- The new CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE status for better visibility into resource provisioning
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of CloudFormation's stabilization process
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