AWS CloudFormation Command Line Operations

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Create a Stack

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name stack-name --template-body file://.../stack-template.yml [--parameters ]

If the template is supposed to create IAM roles, the command line will fail with a message similar to "An error occurred (InsufficientCapabilitiesException) when calling the CreateStack operation: Requires capabilities : [CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM]", unless the capability is explicitly provided on command line with:

aws cloudformation create-stack --capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM ...