[olafalo]

I'm guessing it's heavily dependent on what you're using it for, what kind of resources are you describing in CFN?

In my case, it's Lambda + API Gateway that's the main culprit. For each endpoint in an API, there's a resource for the lambda itself, and a managed policy, role, log group, subscription filter, API resource, method, lambda permission, model, and additional OPTIONS method for CORS purposes. With a setup like that, you can hit the limit with a moderately-sized API.

[kesor]

or you can utilize exported resources, like the article describes, and append your API endpoints to the "master" API Gateway resource that is not even in the same stack.

[olafalo]

Yes, that's the solution we came up with. One stack with lambdas, managed policies, roles, user pool, etc; one stack with the APIGateway::RestApi and some resources and methods, and then another stack with yet more resources and methods. This works, but I don't think it's a great solution. Wouldn't it be preferable to have one stack that encompasses the whole API for one service?

[sheeshkebab]

WTF are you developing... good grief. What happened to a simple web app with some stateless rest endpoints?