With the CIC’s visual Cloudformation Builder interface, you can view templates with many resources at a glance.
You can also select only the resources that you want and view them and their direct relationships.
This allows users to examine and troubleshoot templates in a fraction of the time it would normally take to do by checking each line of code, or attempting to deploy it and waiting for the deployment errors to show up in the console.
Not only can you view a visual representation of the template, but hovering your mouse over a resource shows the resource code in a tooltip.
In addition, you can import and export the code and for collaboration and presentation purposes.
For example, the below video is of a Cloudformation template that consists of 700 lines of code.
Taking a look at the template from a subnet view, you can see that one of the subnets is not referencing the VPC. Looking at the code reveals that there is a typo in the reference to the VPC. Once repaired, the subnet is now referencing the VPC correctly.