AWS CloudFormation StackSets enable you to deploy CloudFormation stacks across multiple AWS accounts and regions with a single operation, providing centralized management of infrastructure at scale through AWS Organizations integration. In enterprise environments, multiple StackSet often need to deploy in a specific order. For example, networking infrastructure must be ready before applications can deploy successfully.
Figure 1: Example of a multi-region AWS CloudFormation StackSet architecture with an administrative account and target accounts
Previously, when multiple StackSets had auto-deployment enabled, they operated independently without coordination. This could cause deployment failures when dependent infrastructure wasn’t ready, forcing customers to implement complex workarounds or disable auto-deployment entirely.
We are announcing StackSets dependencies, a new feature that gives you fine-grained…