CloudFormation in Production: What Breaks and How to Fix It

Moving past YAML templates to failure handling, security, and real tradeoffs Before we start This is a follow-up to Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation: From Fundamentals to Production Patterns . That article covered templates, stacks, nested stacks, CI/CD, and production best practices. This article covers what happens when those best practices aren't enough. When things break in ways the documentation doesn't warn you about. When you're reading CloudFormation error messages at midni