Updating AWS CloudFormation Template Stacks

How to update the AWS CloudFormation templates for an Arpio application stack

In the Arpio console: 

1. Navigate to Application > Settings gear > Wait for It's time for an upgrade! banner to load at the top. 

This checks the newest template version against your existing template to generate release notes.  If the release notes are not relevant for your workloads, you can ignore this update.

2. Click the UPDATE NOW button.  This enables you to copy the latest templates; clicking the button does not initiate any changes to your environment.

3. Click the Clipboard Copy icon for your Primary Environment.

In the AWS console: 

4. Navigate to your Primary account & region and open AWS CloudFormation.

5. Select the stack associated with this application, as specified in the Arpio console. In the above example, the Primary stack is "ArpioApp1-Primary".

Select Stack > Update stack > Make a direct update

6. Replace Existing Template > Paste the Amazon S3 URL from Arpio into the Amazon S3 URL field. 

7. Confirm that the stack name and region match what was provided in the Arpio console. 

8. Return to the Arpio console and click "Test Access" to confirm your changes. This may take 1-2 minutes to reflect the update. Once update is complete, you should see the below message. 

9. Repeat steps 3-8 for your Recovery Environment.