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Reading the AWS documentation here, I've found the following statement:

AWS::SSM::Parameter::Name

The name of a Systems Manager parameter key.

Use this parameter when you want to pass the parameter key. For example, you can use this type to validate that the parameter exists.

I wasn't able to make it work, every time I get: Parameter validation failed: parameter value ... for parameter name ... does not exist.

Shoud it be trying to resolve the parameter type AWS::SSM::Parameter::Name? Anyway, I kept searching and found another statement here:

The first one in the list is used to pass the name of the parameter key as-is. CloudFormation will not fetch the value stored against it. For example, you can use this type to validate that the parameter exists in Parameter Store.

I'm probably not understanding it correctly, so I would like to request an example on how to check if a parameter existis in Systems Manager from CloudFormation?

Use case:

My main region has all parameters stored on Systems Manager, but my second one (redundancy) has only a few. Consider as example not creating the Zone/RecorSet twice in each region. For that I use a condition, as shown bellow:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'

Parameters:

  MainRegion:

    Type: String

    Default: 'us-east-1'

  PrivateFullyQualifiedDomainName:

    Type: 'AWS::SSM::Parameter::Name'

    Default: '/company/route53/private'

Conditions:

  CreateUniqueResources: !Equals [ !Ref 'AWS::Region', !Ref MainRegion ]

Resources:

  Route53Stack:

    Type: 'AWS::CloudFormation::Stack'

    Condition: CreateUniqueResources

    Properties:

      TemplateURL: [some s3 bucket]

      Parameters:

        PrivateDomainName: !Ref PrivateFullyQualifiedDomainName

Outputs:

  TestParameterName:

    # Outputs: /company/route53/private

    Value: !Ref PrivateFullyQualifiedDomainName

And the nested stack:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'

Parameters:

  PrivateDomainName:

    Type: 'AWS::SSM::Parameter::Value<String>'

Resources:

  [sutff...]

Outputs:

  TestParameterValue:

    # Outputs WHEN it exists: supersecretdomain.company.com

    Value: !Ref PrivateDomainName