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Synopsis

Calls the AWS CloudFormation UpdateStackInstances API operation.

Syntax

Update-CFNStackInstance
-StackSetName <String>
-DeploymentTargets_AccountFilterType <AccountFilterType>
-Account <String[]>
-DeploymentTargets_Account <String[]>
-DeploymentTargets_AccountsUrl <String>
-CallAs <CallAs>
-OperationId <String>
-OperationPreference <StackSetOperationPreferences>
-DeploymentTargets_OrganizationalUnitId <String[]>
-ParameterOverride <Parameter[]>
-StackInstanceRegion <String[]>
-Select <String>
-Force <SwitchParameter>
-ClientConfig <AmazonCloudFormationConfig>

Description

Updates the parameter values for stack instances for the specified accounts, within the specified Amazon Web Services Regions. A stack instance refers to a stack in a specific account and Region. You can only update stack instances in Amazon Web Services Regions and accounts where they already exist; to create additional stack instances, use CreateStackInstances. During StackSet updates, any parameters overridden for a stack instance aren't updated, but retain their overridden value. You can only update the parameter values that are specified in the StackSet. To add or delete a parameter itself, use UpdateStackSet to update the StackSet template. If you add a parameter to a template, before you can override the parameter value specified in the StackSet you must first use UpdateStackSet to update all stack instances with the updated template and parameter value specified in the StackSet. Once a stack instance has been updated with the new parameter, you can then override the parameter value using UpdateStackInstances. The maximum number of organizational unit (OUs) supported by a UpdateStackInstances operation is 50. If you need more than 50, consider the following options:
  • Batch processing: If you don't want to expose your OU hierarchy, split up the operations into multiple calls with less than 50 OUs each.
  • Parent OU strategy: If you don't mind exposing the OU hierarchy, target a parent OU that contains all desired child OUs.

Parameters

-Account <String[]>
[Self-managed permissions] The account IDs of one or more Amazon Web Services accounts in which you want to update parameter values for stack instances. The overridden parameter values will be applied to all stack instances in the specified accounts and Amazon Web Services Regions.You can specify Accounts or DeploymentTargets, but not both. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAccounts
-CallAs <CallAs>
[Service-managed permissions] Specifies whether you are acting as an account administrator in the organization's management account or as a delegated administrator in a member account.By default, SELF is specified. Use SELF for StackSets with self-managed permissions.
  • If you are signed in to the management account, specify SELF.
  • If you are signed in to a delegated administrator account, specify DELEGATED_ADMIN.Your Amazon Web Services account must be registered as a delegated administrator in the management account. For more information, see Register a delegated administrator in the CloudFormation User Guide.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ClientConfig <AmazonCloudFormationConfig>
Amazon.PowerShell.Cmdlets.CFN.AmazonCloudFormationClientCmdlet.ClientConfig
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-DeploymentTargets_Account <String[]>
The Amazon Web Services account IDs where you want to perform stack operations. How these accounts are used depends on the AccountFilterType property.If you have many account numbers, you can provide those accounts using the AccountsUrl property instead. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesDeploymentTargets_Accounts
-DeploymentTargets_AccountFilterType <AccountFilterType>
Refines which accounts will have stack operations performed on them by specifying how to use the Accounts and OrganizationalUnitIds properties together.The following values determine how CloudFormation selects target accounts:
  • INTERSECTION: Performs stack operations only on specific individual accounts within the selected OUs. Only accounts that are both specified in the Accounts property and belong to the specified OUs will be targeted.
  • DIFFERENCE: Performs stack operations on all accounts in the selected OUs except for specific accounts listed in the Accounts property. This enables you to exclude certain accounts within an OU, such as suspended accounts.
  • UNION: Performs stack operations on the specified OUs plus additional individual accounts listed in the Accounts property. This is the default value if AccountFilterType is not provided. This lets you target an entire OU and individual accounts from a different OU in one request. Note that UNION is not supported for CreateStackInstances operations.
  • NONE: Performs stack operations on all accounts in the specified organizational units (OUs).
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-DeploymentTargets_AccountsUrl <String>
The Amazon S3 URL path to a file that contains a list of Amazon Web Services account IDs. The file format must be either .csv or .txt, and the data can be comma-separated or new-line-separated. There is currently a 10MB limit for the data (approximately 800,000 accounts).This property serves the same purpose as Accounts but allows you to specify a large number of accounts.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-DeploymentTargets_OrganizationalUnitId <String[]>
The organization root ID or organizational unit (OU) IDs where you want to perform stack operations. CloudFormation will perform operations on accounts within these OUs and their child OUs. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesDeploymentTargets_OrganizationalUnitIds
-Force <SwitchParameter>
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-OperationId <String>
The unique identifier for this StackSet operation.The operation ID also functions as an idempotency token, to ensure that CloudFormation performs the StackSet operation only once, even if you retry the request multiple times. You might retry StackSet operation requests to ensure that CloudFormation successfully received them.If you don't specify an operation ID, the SDK generates one automatically.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-OperationPreference <StackSetOperationPreferences>
Preferences for how CloudFormation performs this StackSet operation.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesOperationPreferences
-ParameterOverride <Parameter[]>
A list of input parameters whose values you want to update for the specified stack instances.Any overridden parameter values will be applied to all stack instances in the specified accounts and Amazon Web Services Regions. When specifying parameters and their values, be aware of how CloudFormation sets parameter values during stack instance update operations:
  • To override the current value for a parameter, include the parameter and specify its value.
  • To leave an overridden parameter set to its present value, include the parameter and specify UsePreviousValue as true. (You can't specify both a value and set UsePreviousValue to true.)
  • To set an overridden parameter back to the value specified in the StackSet, specify a parameter list but don't include the parameter in the list.
  • To leave all parameters set to their present values, don't specify this property at all.
During StackSet updates, any parameter values overridden for a stack instance aren't updated, but retain their overridden value.You can only override the parameter values that are specified in the StackSet. To add or delete a parameter itself, use UpdateStackSet to update the StackSet template. If you add a parameter to a template, before you can override the parameter value specified in the StackSet you must first use UpdateStackSet to update all stack instances with the updated template and parameter value specified in the StackSet. Once a stack instance has been updated with the new parameter, you can then override the parameter value using UpdateStackInstances. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesParameterOverrides
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is 'OperationId'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.CloudFormation.Model.UpdateStackInstancesResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.CloudFormation.Model.UpdateStackInstancesResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-StackInstanceRegion <String[]>
The names of one or more Amazon Web Services Regions in which you want to update parameter values for stack instances. The overridden parameter values will be applied to all stack instances in the specified accounts and Amazon Web Services Regions. Starting with version 4 of the SDK this property will default to null. If no data for this property is returned from the service the property will also be null. This was changed to improve performance and allow the SDK and caller to distinguish between a property not set or a property being empty to clear out a value. To retain the previous SDK behavior set the AWSConfigs.InitializeCollections static property to true.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-StackSetName <String>
The name or unique ID of the StackSet associated with the stack instances.
Required?True
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

System.String or Amazon.CloudFormation.Model.UpdateStackInstancesResponse
This cmdlet returns a System.String object. The service call response (type Amazon.CloudFormation.Model.UpdateStackInstancesResponse) can be returned by specifying '-Select *'.
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Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z