Document history for the Amazon CloudFormation Hooks user guide - Amazon CloudFormation
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Document history for the Amazon CloudFormation Hooks user guide

The following table describes the important changes to the documentation since the last release of Amazon CloudFormation Hooks. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

  • Latest documentation update: December 8, 2023.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Stack-level Hooks

Hooks are now supported at the stack-level, allowing customers to use CloudFormation Hooks to evaluate new templates and potentially block stack operations from proceeding.

November 13, 2024

Amazon Cloud Control API Hooks integration

Hooks are now integrated with Cloud Control API, allowing customers to use CloudFormation Hooks to proactively inspect the configuration of resources before provisioning. If non-compliant resources are found, the Hook either fails the operation and prevents the resources from being provisioned, or emits a warning and allows the provisioning operation to continue.

November 13, 2024

Amazon CloudFormation Guard Hooks

Amazon CloudFormation Guard is an open-source and general purpose domain specific language (DSL) you can use to author policy-as-code. Guard Hooks can evaluate Cloud Control API and CloudFormation operations to inspect the configuration of resources before provisioning. If non-compliant resources are found, the Hook either fails the operation and prevents the resources from being provisioned, or emits a warning and allows the provisioning operation to continue.

November 13, 2024

Amazon Lambda Hooks

Amazon CloudFormation Lambda Hooks allow you to evaluate CloudFormation and Cloud Control API operations against custom your own custom code. Your Hook can block an operation from proceeding, or issue a warning to the caller and allow the operation to proceed.

November 13, 2024

Hooks User Guide

Initial version of the Amazon CloudFormation Hooks User Guide. Updates include a new introduction, getting started walkthrough, concepts and terminology, stack level filtering, and updated topics on prerequisites, setup, and CloudFormation Hooks development.

December 8, 2023