Pros and Cons of cumulus vs AWS::CloudFormation::Stack

[sesas]

I am working with CloudFormation a lot these days and usually if I want to coordinate deployments between 2 stacks I just define substacks in the parent template file.

I was wondering what does Cumulus solve that substacks can't solve. I do understand that writing yaml is better than writing json though.

Cheers,

[mazzystr]

Cumulus doesn't allow you to get out of writing json. Try CloudFormation designer for that.

Cumulus does allow you to establish soft relationships between stacks by querying values from one stack and passing them into the next stack as stack parameters.

Cumulus also allows for better create/delete/modify stack operations on the command line. The awscli is pretty obnoxious for those functions.