AWS recently expanded support for manipulating input and output data by adding 14 new intrinsic functions for AWS Step Functions to simplify data processing, reduce calls to downstream services ...

Since we don’t have greater than, less than intrinsic functions in CloudFormation, we will use the !Equals function to reference the input parameter and check its equality to “1”.

Benefits of AWS CloudFormation As you can imagine, using AWS CloudFormation means there is one primary method of controlling the infrastructure rather than a disparate set of parameters and controls.