Searching for a CloudFormation plugin returns two unrelated kinds of tool. Picking the wrong one is why people install something and find it does not do what they wanted.
Schema completion, validation, and navigation inside template.yaml. This is a
language feature — it helps while you write, and does nothing once you hit deploy.
A stack is updating and you want to know what it is doing and why it failed. This is a read-only view over the CloudFormation API: stacks, their status, and the event stream.
The first failure event is what matters. Rollback then produces a long tail of "Resource creation cancelled" entries that say nothing — they are consequences, not causes. Read newest-first, skip the cancellation noise, and find the first real error.
cloudformation:ListStacks
cloudformation:DescribeStacks
cloudformation:DescribeStackEventsListStacks is easy to miss — without it the stack list comes back empty even
though the other calls succeed. This one only shows up when you test against a real account.
These guides are written by sellerkit. We publish JetBrains IDE plugins for AWS, and the ones relevant to this page are listed below. Everything above works whether or not you use them.
Our plugins declare no upper IDE build limit, and each release is run through the JetBrains Plugin Verifier against multiple IDE versions before it ships.