I recently had the opportunity to explore building custom CloudFormation resource types as a mechanism to support a stream-aligned team. It was intriguing to play with this new-to-me tool and see how it could reduce complexity for the team.

Sometimes Lambda doesn’t cut it when you’re trying to create a custom resource.

The other day I got halfway through writing a very irate support ticket to AWS, stopped to do some fact checking, and learned something deeply annoying.