>Is it using some functionality not available to other tools?
No, CloudFormation just postpones resource deletions towards the end of stack operations to allow successful operation rollbacks. Even the default replacement strategy is creating the new resource before deleting the old resource whenever possible for this reason:
No, CloudFormation just postpones resource deletions towards the end of stack operations to allow successful operation rollbacks. Even the default replacement strategy is creating the new resource before deleting the old resource whenever possible for this reason:
https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-res...