Cloud Executable API

This module is part of the AWS Cloud Development Kit project.

V2 Feature Flags

• @aws-cdk/aws-s3:createDefaultLoggingPolicy

Enable this feature flag to create an S3 bucket policy by default in cases where an AWS service would automatically create the Policy if one does not exist.

For example, in order to send VPC flow logs to an S3 bucket, there is a specific Bucket Policy that needs to be attached to the bucket. If you create the bucket without a policy and then add the bucket as the flow log destination, the service will automatically create the bucket policy with the necessary permissions. If you were to then try and add your own bucket policy CloudFormation will throw and error indicating that a bucket policy already exists.

In cases where we know what the required policy is we can go ahead and create the policy so we can remain in control of it.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/AWS-logs-and-resource-policy.html#AWS-logs-infrastructure-S3

cdk.json

{
  "context": {
    "@aws-cdk/aws-s3:createDefaultLoggingPolicy": true
  }
}

• @aws-cdk/aws-sns-subscriptions:restrictSqsDescryption

Enable this feature flag to restrict the decryption of a SQS queue, which is subscribed to a SNS topic, to only the topic which it is subscribed to and not the whole SNS service of an account.

Previously the decryption was only restricted to the SNS service principal. To make the SQS subscription more secure, it is a good practice to restrict the decryption further and only allow the connected SNS topic to decryption the subscribed queue.

cdk.json

{
  "context": {
    "@aws-cdk/aws-sns-subscriptions:restrictSqsDescryption": true
  }
}

• @aws-cdk/aws-apigateway:disableCloudWatchRole

Enable this feature flag to change the default behavior for aws-apigateway.RestApi and aws-apigateway.SpecRestApi to not create a CloudWatch role and Account. There is only a single ApiGateway account per AWS environment which means that each time you create a RestApi in your account the ApiGateway account is overwritten. If at some point the newest RestApi is deleted, the ApiGateway Account and CloudWatch role will also be deleted, breaking any existing ApiGateways that were depending on them.

When this flag is enabled you should either create the ApiGateway account and CloudWatch role separately or only enable the cloudWatchRole on a single RestApi.

cdk.json

{
  "context": {
    "@aws-cdk/aws-apigateway:disableCloudWatchRole": true
  }
}

• @aws-cdk/core:enablePartitionLiterals

Enable this feature flag to have Stack.partition return a literal string for a stack's partition when the stack has a known region configured. If the region is undefined, or set to an unknown value, the Stack.partition will be the CloudFormation intrinsic value AWS::Partition. Without this feature flag, Stack.partition always returns the CloudFormation intrinsic value AWS::Partition.

This feature will often simplify ARN strings in CDK generated templates, for example:

 Principal:
   AWS:
     Fn::Join:
       - ""
       - - "arn:"
         - Ref: AWS::Partition
         - :iam::123456789876:root

becomes:

 Principal:
   AWS: "arn:aws:iam::123456789876:root"