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

You can also make use of the CloudFormation Designer available from amazon here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/designer/home?region=us-east-1

Simply paste your template (JSON) on the "Template" pane and then click on the tick symbol to validate your template. Any errors will show up in the "Error" pane.

Hope this helps.