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Mohammad
Mohammad

Reputation: 1939

Aws cloudformation validate-template keeps giving error (Template format error)

I've been stuck with this from yesterday, I run the below command:

aws cloudformation validate-template --template-body test.json

(test.json is my template) and it keeps on giving me the bellow error:

A client error (ValidationError) occurred when calling the ValidateTemplate operation: Template format error: JSON not well-formed. (line 1, column 5).

I even tried to test with the different aws template samples, and it still gives me the same error(with diff clolumn number). Any solution?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 10081

Answers (1)

Ben Whaley
Ben Whaley

Reputation: 34426

The template you posted is valid but there's a syntax error in the command and it's not communicating what the problem is. Try this:

aws cloudformation validate-template --template-body file://template.json

Upvotes: 48

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