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CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform — Learn it in 5 minutes
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Clicking the console does not review. A stack does.
The resource types you will actually diff are AWS::Connect::Instance, ContactFlow, ContactFlowModule, HoursOfOperation, Queue, RoutingProfile, User, SecurityProfile, PhoneNumber, QuickConnect, Rule, and TrafficDistributionGroup. Flow content is flow-language JSON.
Terraform mirrors the important ones, including aws_connect_lambda_function_association and aws_connect_bot_association. Association resources are how code attaches Lambda and Lex. The flow still has to reference them.
- CDK uses the same CloudFormation types.
- Phone number resources can fail for quota reasons the template cannot see.
- Do not put production flow JSON only in a laptop. The JSON is the source of truth the designer also edits, so pick one writer.
- aws-samples and amazon-connect/amazon-connect-streams are the public code to read, not to paste into production unchanged.
Number on this page: Flow format JSON. Flow language
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Sources and go deeper
- Connect Customer Flow language - Amazon Connect AWS docs. last checked 2026-10
- Configure SAML with IAM for Connect Customer - Amazon Connect Customer AWS docs. last checked 2026-10
- What is Connect Customer? - Amazon Connect Customer AWS docs. last checked 2026-10
- RFC 8446: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 | RFC Editor RFC. last checked 2026-10
- AWS History and Timeline regarding Amazon Connect - Overview, Functions, Features, Summary of Updates, and Introduction to Amazon Connect Customer | hidekazu-ko community. last checked 2026-10
- Amazon Web Services - Wikipedia Wikipedia. last checked 2026-10