How can I quickly and effectively debug CloudFormation templates?

Question

CloudFormation is a powerful AWS offering that allows the programmatic creation of AWS resource stacks, such as the web tier of an application, a high performance computing

Answer 1

Please checkout my cloudformation validator at https://pypi.org/project/cloudformation-validator/

This will validate the schema and then validate again a list of rules, and allow for custom rules. I also allows for easy integration with deployment tools.