CloudFormation console link resource type coverage

[Ricapar]

2. Scope of request

When CloudFormation provisions resources for you, you can check what it has created via the "Resources" tab on the stack.

The table lists out the Logical ID, Physical ID, Type, Status, etc.

On certain resources, the Physical ID will be a link that takes you to the page within the AWS Console that represents that resource.

One would expect that if the resource is not click-able that it doesn't exist as something viewable within the console, but this is not the case. There doesn't appear to be consistency between which resources are click-able and which ones are not.

Being able to click on the Physical ID and jump to the section of the console that describes that resource makes for quick drill-downs into what you're dealing with when looking at a stack.

3. Expected behavior

Any resource that can be linked to directly within the console should be linked to via CloudFormation.

Resources that don't have a presence within the console or are sub-sections of other resources should continue to behave as-is and not be linked.

4. Suggest specific test cases

• If you create a resource of AWS::S3::Bucket, the Physical ID column will be the name of the bucket as link to the S3 bucket within the AWS Console. 👍
• If you create a resource of AWS::ECS::Cluster, the Physical ID will be the name of the ECS Cluster, but it is not clickable even though it is possible to hotlink directly to a page for the ECS Cluster. 👎

[PatMyron]

Supported resource types:
deepLinkResourceSpecification.json

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Couldn't find links using PHYSICALID but could link closer:

AWS::Amplify::App https://console.aws.amazon.com/amplify/home
AWS::AppMesh::Mesh https://console.aws.amazon.com/appmesh/meshes
AWS::AppStream::ImageBuilder https://console.aws.amazon.com/appstream2/home#/images?topTab=image-builders
AWS::AppStream::User https://console.aws.amazon.com/appstream2/home#/users
AWS::AppSync::GraphQLApi https://console.aws.amazon.com/appsync/home#/apis
AWS::Athena::NamedQuery https://console.aws.amazon.com/athena/saved-queries/home
AWS::Batch::JobDefinition https://console.aws.amazon.com/batch/home#/job-definitions
AWS::CloudFront::CloudFrontOriginAccessIdentity https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/home#oai:
AWS::CodeCommit::Repository https://console.aws.amazon.com/codesuite/codecommit/repositories
AWS::CodeDeploy::DeploymentConfig https://console.aws.amazon.com/codesuite/codedeploy/deployment-configs
AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/home#/taskDefinitions
AWS::EFS::FileSystem https://console.aws.amazon.com/efs/home#/filesystems
AWS::ElastiCache::ParameterGroup https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticache/home#param-groups
AWS::GameLift::Alias https://console.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/home#/r/aliases
AWS::GameLift::Build https://console.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/home#/r/builds
AWS::Glue::Classifier https://console.aws.amazon.com/glue/home#catalog:tab=classifiers
AWS::Glue::Workflow https://console.aws.amazon.com/glue/home#etl:tab=workflows
AWS::Inspector::AssessmentTarget https://console.aws.amazon.com/inspector/home#/target
AWS::RoboMaker::Fleet https://console.aws.amazon.com/robomaker/home#fleets
AWS::SageMaker::CodeRepository https://console.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/home#/notebook-git-repositories
AWS::SageMaker::NotebookInstanceLifecycleConfig https://console.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/home#/notebook-instance-lifecycles
AWS::SQS:Queue https://console.aws.amazon.com/sqs/home

[PatMyron]

100+ resource type support rolling out (still adding more deeplink support)

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• percent-encoding issues with some characters in some services' consoles (SNS, SSM, ECR, etc)
• issues when physical resource IDs are dynamic references

[alexgurmanihsm]

Any ETA? Would be nice!

[gruebel]

Is it also possible to leverage this functionality with Custom Resources? For example adding a link to the Log Group of the Lambda function?

[benbridts]

@gruebel If you are using a Resource Provider, you can add "resourceLink" to the schema, like the AWS implementation does;

[challapradyumna]

In the mean time before this gets fixed i've created a google chrome extension that adds links to ALB's, Listeners & TargetGroups - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aws-ui-helper/mphfofmlanhmdaldkcidkpgnnihimadm?hl=en&authuser=0 . If there is a list of resources with link patterns i can add more resources.

[PatMyron]

@challapradyumna open source?

[challapradyumna]

@PatMyron https://github.com/challapradyumna/aws-ui-helper