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by kords 2018 days ago
Yup, today I was looking on some examples of AWS CloudFormation templates and I saw version 2010-09-09. Instantly, I thought the webpage I was reading must be old; so I opened the docs. In the docs, I see "The latest template format version is 2010-09-09 and is currently the only valid value."

Last version was 10 years ago and this service is one of the core AWS services, so it's definitively not abandoned.
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tw1ser 2018 days ago
That's just the template format version, not the version of the service. Actual features and resources are being continuously added to CloudFormation. See release history: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

Unless I'm confusing your comment.

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dlgeek 2018 days ago
That's just protocol versioning - it means they haven't made backwards-incompatible breaking changes to the template protocol, not that the features haven't been updated in 10 years.
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mypalmike 2018 days ago
Please do tell us what changes they should make to their template format such that it would require a version update.
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radlad 2018 days ago
In some circles, this is seen as a mark of stability.
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