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Stack commands

These commands work with deployed CloudFormation stacks. All of them take the common flags, including -p (--profile) and -r (--region).

The command output on these pages is illustrative. It needs a real AWS account, so the names, IDs and times in your output will be different.

Command What it does
deploy Creates or updates a stack through a change set.
ls Lists the stacks in the current region.
cat Prints the template of a deployed stack.
logs Shows the events of a stack and its nested stacks.
watch Shows the status of a stack while it changes.
rm Deletes a stack and waits until the delete completes.
stackset Works with CloudFormation stack sets.
cc Deploys templates with the Cloud Control API instead of CloudFormation. Experimental.