Create CloudFomation stack only after the creation of another CloudFormation stack

Question

I've created two CloudFormation templates.

The first one will create a DynamoDB table.

The second one will operate on the DynamoDB table created.

The resources need to be on separate stacks because the second stack can be deleted and recreated multiple times.

As you can see, I need the first stack to be created first and, only after that, create the second one.

But, from my node aplication, I have no idea how can I do that. If I just send the requests to CloudFormation, they will be created in an arbitrary order.

How can I solve this problem?

Brettski-AWS · Answer

As per the other answer, nested stacks are a good way of doing this.

But you can [monitor stack events](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/eventbridge-integration.html) with EventBridge and SNS. So you can create the first stack and have it send a message on completion which you could use as a trigger for the second stack. Export the name of the DynamoDB table from the first stack to consume it in the second.

rePost-VijayKr · Answer

have you tried nested stack . This blog has good details https://curiousorbit.com/blog/aws-cloudformation-nested-stacks/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-nested-stacks.html

Create CloudFomation stack only after the creation of another CloudFormation stack

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