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Re:AWS CloudShell by kords on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:16PM (#25437311)
Yup, today I was looking on some examples of AWS CloudFormation templates and I saw version 2010-09-09. Instantly, I thought the webpage I was reading must be old; so I opened the docs. In the docs, I see "The latest template format version is 2010-09-09 and is currently the only valid value."

Last version was 10 years ago and this service is one of the core AWS services, so it's definitively not abandoned.

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Re:AWS CloudShell by tw1ser on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:53PM (#25437625)
That's just the template format version, not the version of the service. Actual features and resources are being continuously added to CloudFormation. See release history: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

Unless I'm confusing your comment.

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Re:AWS CloudShell by dlgeek on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:44PM (#25438027)
That's just protocol versioning - it means they haven't made backwards-incompatible breaking changes to the template protocol, not that the features haven't been updated in 10 years.
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Re:AWS CloudShell by mypalmike on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:23PM (#25437866)
Please do tell us what changes they should make to their template format such that it would require a version update.
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Re:AWS CloudShell by johnmaguire2013 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:34PM (#25437960)
In some circles, this is seen as a mark of stability.
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