AWS CloudFormation now provides a new visual deployment timeline view that shows the sequential order of resource provisioning, dependencies between resources, provisioning times, and likely root causes for any deployment failures, providing better visibility into the orchestration flow of infrastructure-as-code deployments.

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<p>This article introduces a new feature in AWS CloudFormation called the deployment timeline view, which provides a visual representation of the sequence of actions CloudFormation takes during a stack operation.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>How the deployment timeline view works</li>
<li>Creating a simple stack and exploring the timeline view</li>
<li>Understanding the timeline view when a stack is in a rollback state</li>
<li>Conclusion highlighting the benefits of the new feature</li>
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