Relics of the IT underworld

    In the realm of AWS there are many cool ways to automate your code an the underlying infrastructure that will run said code. As someone who has used various techniques ranging from writing your own bash scripts to TerraForm I thought I would take a few minutes to focus on using CloudFormation.     For those new to the AWS scene CloudFormation is the service provided by AWS to automate deployment of the services and configurations of your infrastructure in the cloud. When I first was introduced to the product I found many problems and limitations with it. That being said it has been a few years and with any technology a few years yields leaps and bounds in improvements in the service and technology.     One of the first things that was a big problem when I first visited the service was the ability to be able to pull some pieces of information together that would make having to gather input and introducing human error into the process. They have sin...