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Ability to reference outputs across regions
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Description
## 1. Title
Ability to reference outputs of a stack in another region
## 2. Scope of request
In our environments we have created cloudfront distributions in a european region via cloudformation. We are now creating a lambda@edge function for use with one of these distributions. Because lambda@edge can only be created in us-east-1, we are now in the situation where we have to hardcode the ARN, or retrieve it via the CLI and pass it in as a parameter, for use in our cloudfront stack in the european region. For simplicity we would much rather be able to use a cross stack reference that specifies the region the stack exists in.
## 3. Expected behavior
I should be able to optionally specify a region in my cross stack reference, to pull in an output value from a cloudformation stack deployed in a different region.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing how CloudFormation cross-stack references handle stack outputs and region boundaries, using the CloudFront and Lambda@Edge scenario described in the issue. Done means an optional region can identify an output from a stack deployed in another region without hardcoding its ARN or retrieving it through the CLI.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws
- Domain
- cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100