View stack information from the CloudFormation console

After you've created a CloudFormation stack, you can use the AWS Management Console to view its data and resources.

To view information about your CloudFormation stack

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS CloudFormation console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation.

2. On the navigation bar at the top of the screen, choose the AWS Region where the stack is located.

3. On the Stacks page, choose the stack name. CloudFormation displays the stack details for the selected stack.

   Note

   If the stack has been deleted, you can find it by using the Filter status option. For more information, see View deleted stacks from the CloudFormation console.

You can view the following stack information:

Stack info

Displays general information about the stack and its configuration, including:

Overview

Displays stack name, stack ID, root stack, and IAM role, along with status information such as stack status, drift status, and termination protection.

Tags

Displays any tags that are associated with the stack.

Stack policy

Describes the stack resources that are protected against stack updates. For you to be able to update these resources, they must be explicitly allowed during a stack update. For more information, see Prevent updates to stack resources.

Rollback configuration

Displays any CloudWatch alarms that you have specified that CloudFormation should monitor during the stack operation or the specified monitoring period. If any of the alarms goes to ALARM state during the stack operation or the monitoring period, CloudFormation rolls back the entire stack operation. For more information, see Roll back your CloudFormation stack on alarm breach with rollback triggers.

Notification options

Displays the Amazon Simple Notification Service topic where notifications about stack events are sent, if specified.

Events

Displays the operations that are tracked when you create, update, or delete the stack. For more information, see Monitor stack progress.

All events that are triggered by a given stack operation are assigned the same client request token, which you can use to track operations. Stack operations that are initiated from the console use the token format Console-StackOperation-ID, which helps you to easily identify the stack operation. For example, if you create a stack using the console, each resulting stack event would be assigned the same token in the following format: Console-CreateStack-7f59c3cf-00d2-40c7-b2ff-e75db0987002.

Resources

Displays the resources that are part of the stack.

Outputs

Displays outputs that were declared in the stack's template. For more information, see Get exported outputs from a deployed CloudFormation stack.

Parameters

Displays the stack's parameters and their values.

For stacks that contain Systems Manager parameters, the Resolved Value column displays the values that are used in the stack definition for the Systems Manager parameters. For more information, see Reference existing resources and Systems Manager parameters with CloudFormation-supplied parameter types.

Template

Displays the stack's template.

For stacks that contain macros, choose View original template to view the user-submitted template, or View processed template to view the template after CloudFormation processes the referenced macros. CloudFormation uses the processed template to create or update your stack.