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I don't use CF, but how does it handle rolling back a delete (thus recreating a resource) and resource ARNs? Is it using some functionality not available to oth

I don't use CF, but how does it handle rolling back a delete (thus recreating a resource) and resource ARNs? Is it using some functionality not available to other tools? I always found tf's lack of rollback ability, basically admitting there is no way to really rollback to the exact state, ARNs and all, so it isn't going to try.

myroon5 6y ago
>Is it using some functionality not available to other tools? No, CloudFormation just postpones resource deletions towards the end of stack operations to allow successful operation rollbacks. Even the default replacement strategy is creating the new resource before deleting the old resource whenever possible for this reason: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-resource-schema/pull/86 https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-res...