Cloudformation Documentation Links

This extension add links to AWS resources in CloudFormation templates.

Features

Adds a link to the AWS documentation when a Type declaration is found.

Implementation is basic - it searches each line for a Type attribute with a value of an AWS resource. The link uri is constructed using the service name and data type name.

Links work for AWS cloudformation resources and Serverless resources only.

Known Issues

This extension is activated for all json and yaml file types which will cause excessive activations. Additionally there isn't a limit to number of lines scanned. This could result in slow down when interacting with large files which are now cloudformation templates.