CloudFormation

The first service that we will look at is CloudFormation. This makes sense, as the APIs found there will give us a starting point for finding information about the resources in a given stack.

The describeStacks endpoint

The describeStacks endpoint is responsible for listing all of the stacks associated with a particular AWS account. For a given stack, the response will look as follows:

{"Stacks" 
   [{"StackId" 
     "arn:aws:cloudformation:ap-southeast-2:337944750480:stack/DevStack-62031/1", 
     "StackStatus" "CREATE_IN_PROGRESS", 
     "StackName" "DevStack-62031", 
     "Parameters" [{"ParameterKey" "DevDB&quot...