AWS Stack update error: Requires capabilities : [CAPABILITY_IAM]

Question

When creating a stack with CloudFormation, I get this error:

Stack update error: Requires capabilities : [CAPABILITY_IAM]

I can\'t find a templ

Answer 1

If you are using the AWS CLI, you can add an extra parameter to the aws cloudformation create-stack command that explicitly states you want these capabilities provided.

(this is the CLI equivalent of ticking the checkbox in the other answer here).

The parameter is --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM, so your command would look like:

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name $STACK_NAME --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

Hope that helps