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Support CloudFormation rollback triggers

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Description

CloudFormation supports specifying 0-5 rollback triggers as CloudWatch Metric Alarms, which when triggered will automatically cause the stack update to be cancelled. Also a monitoring time of 0-180 minutes can be specified, which means a pause time CloudFormation will wait for any of the alarms to be triggered, or a rollback to be manually triggered, before cleaning up any resources.

There should be a way to use these with AWS CDK.

### Use Case

Rollback triggers have obvious uses to make stack updates more reliable.

### Proposed Solution

Similar to `--notification-arns` currently in `deploy` command, add `--rollback-trigger-alarm-arns` option to be able to list 1-5 CloudWatch Alarms that automatically trigger a rollback. Also add `--monitoring-time-minutes` option which can be used to add 0-180 minutes of pause time after a stack update before the cleanup phase starts. Both options can be specified independently, as they are useful on their own.

### Other

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-rollback-triggers.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/APIReference/API_RollbackConfiguration.html

* [x] :wave: I may be able to implement this feature request
* [ ] :warning: This feature might incur a breaking change

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This is a :rocket: Feature Request

Contributor guide

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Research direction

Start at the CDK deploy command entry point and review the CloudFormation RollbackConfiguration API documentation linked in the issue. Trace how --notification-arns is handled, then add equivalent support for rollback alarm ARNs and monitoring time; done means both options work independently with the documented limits and are passed to CloudFormation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, typescript
Domain
cli, cloud, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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