Has builtin support for placeholders. This means you can quickly jump from property to property in each resource by using Tab
Every resource type contains the matching documentation URL in its description.
Usage
Step 1. Install this extension
Step 2. create a .yml file to start working on CloudFormation
Step 3. Check in the bottom right-hand corner of the VS Code editor that the file type is listed as "YAML".
Step 4. To start with the basic template structure, type cfn to get the YAML formatted template fragment.
Step 5. Start adding resources in the resource section by using their prefix name e.g. autoscaling-autoscalinggroup equals resource type AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup
Note: Once you start typing a prefix (explained in step 5), the corresponding snippet will show up in the dropdown menu. If this doesn't happen automatically, press ctrl + space to invoke IntelliSense and search for the prefix of the resource type that you want to add (as listed in step 5).
Support
If you have a feature request or an issue, please let me know on Github
Contributing
If you want to add more snippets, your contribution is more than welcome!
If you want to boost your productivity even more with VS Code and CloudFormation. Have a look at this article that I wrote to help you level up your CloudFormation templating game!
