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How to reference variable from environment variable and fallback to default value as a ref one?

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Description

Provider: AWS
I have the following resource in serverless.yml

resources:
  Resources:
    MyQueue:
      Type: AWS::SQS::Queue
      Properties:
        QueueName:${self:provider.stage}_my_queue

What I need to do is to reference an environment variable from .env file and fallback to ref MyQueue if .env file is missing that key.

referencing a resource is like this

MY_QUEUE:  { Ref: MyQueue }

how we can do it like this

MY_QUEUE: ${env:MY_QUEUE, {Ref: MyQueue} } # this not valid one

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Begin with the serverless.yml variable expression and the .env lookup described in the issue, then examine how AWS CloudFormation Ref values are represented in Serverless configuration. Done means establishing whether a supported fallback syntax exists and, if this repository should demonstrate it, documenting the working example.

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Tech stack
aws
Domain
cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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Newbie friendliness
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