VS Code CloudFormation Linter uses cfn-lint to lint your CloudFormation templates.

• Uses cfn-lint to parse the template and show problems with it.

• Uses pydot to preview the template as a graph of resources.

Requires cfn-lint to be installed: pip install cfn-lint.

If you want to be able to preview templates as graphs, you also need to install pydot: pip install pydot.

• cfnLint.path: path to the cfn-lint command, optionally including parameters as well:

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The code for this plugin can be found on GitHub at awslabs/aws-cfn-lint-visual-studio-code