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Detect Stack Drift

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Recipe · 3 steps

Detect Stack Drift

with AWS CloudFormation · IT Infrastructure Management

Run drift detection on a stack and report which resources drifted.

  1. Start a stack-wide drift detection operation and capture the detection ID used to monitor progress.
  2. Poll DescribeStackDriftDetectionStatus until detection finishes. Branch to listing drifts on DETECTION_COMPLETE or to a failure end on DETECTION_FAILED.
  3. Retrieve the per-resource drift details for the stack, filtered to the resources that have actually drifted.
What you'll need to have ready
  • stackName: The name or unique ID of the stack to check for drift.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow cloudformation:detect-stack-drift, 3 operations: detectStackDrift → describeStackDriftDetectionStatus → describeStackResourceDrifts. Specs on APIs.io.

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