User is not authorized to perform: cloudformation:CreateStack

Question

I\'m trying out Serverless to create AWS Lambdas and while creating a project using the command serverless project create I\'m getting the following error.

Answer 1

These 2 helped me cross the line...

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "apigateway:*",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

and

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:ListStacks",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
                "cloudformation:CreateStack",
                "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
                "cloudformation:CreateChangeSet",
                "cloudformation:DescribeChangeSet",
                "cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet",
                "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}