Name IT Right VS Code Extension

Stop taking the guess work out of naming your AWS resources!

Visual Studio Code Extenstion to validate AWS Resource names in CloudFormation templates.

See in action

Features

Errors

Get warned before deploying the template about the properties breaking AWS naming rules thanks to our curated, open-source registry. We support multiple rules per property and provide human-readable errors.

Warnings

Get insights about possible incompatibility between services when using certain names, without having to go through the documentation every time.

CloudFormation Schema Registry

To ensure completeness, we leverage naming rules from CloudFormation resource provider schemas if Name IT Right does not (yet) have information about the resource.

Requirements and current limitations

• Only JSON format of CloudFormation templates is supported.
• Only hardcoded JSON strings are supported. The extension does not evaluate CloudFormation functions like Fn::Sub.
• CloudFormation resource provider schemas may not be 100% accurate, as the resource availability may vary by region - read more here.

Building extension from source

Make sure Visual Studio Code Extension Manager (vsce) is installed.

You can build the .vsix package with vsce package. Finally, install it with from the context menu on the Extensions view by pointing to the newly created file.