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A resource operation failed during the CloudFormation phase and the analyser could not narrow the cause to a more specific category. The cause could not be attributed automatically. The provider’s verbatim reason is the best signal for what went wrong.

Why this happens

This is the catch-all code for the CloudFormation family. It covers any resource create, update, or delete failure that does not match a narrower category such as permissions, validation, dependency, quota, or timeout. The specific cause lives in CloudFormation’s status reason, which Fjall quotes verbatim in the failure record. If that reason names a denied action or a rejected value, the narrower page applies instead: cfn.permissions or cfn.validation.

How to fix it

  1. Read the provider reason on the deployment’s detail page. It is CloudFormation’s own account of the failure and usually names the property, state, or condition at fault.
  2. Note the root cause resource. Fjall prints it beside the code as cfn.resource_create_failed · Resource: <logicalId> (<type>).
  3. Open that stack’s events in the AWS console to see every resource the failure touched, in the order CloudFormation reported them.
  4. Fix the named resource. Depending on the reason, that means correcting its configuration in infrastructure.ts, repairing its state in AWS, or resolving the condition the reason describes.
  5. Retry the deploy once the cause is addressed.

What Fjall shows you

The failure surfaces on the deployment’s detail page on fjall.io, in the CLI’s failure block, and in the deployments list row title. In --non-interactive output that block is labelled Error Detail. The detail page carries the stable code, a per-occurrence detail sentence, the provider’s verbatim reason, and the remediation steps, along with the root cause resource from the stack analysis.

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