cloudformation deploy exits without useful message

[GavinZZ]

Describe the bug

We had a customer issue cut to SAM repo and I think this is an issue with aws-cli. So creating the same issue here for help.

The following is what the customer described originally

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After running the aws cloudformation package command, I then run deploy and get this:

aws cloudformation deploy --template-file new_template.yml --stack-name stack_name --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM --profile profile_name
Waiting for changeset to be created..

'Status'

It exits at that point. It gets stuck on the first event:
"ResourceStatus": "REVIEW_IN_PROGRESS",

I am using the code from this example:
https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/tree/master/examples/2016-10-31/hello_world

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We've figured out the root cause where it's because of missing permission when calling the aws cli deployment command.

Expected Behavior

Give the error message more meaningful content

Current Behavior

aws cloudformation deploy --template-file new_template.yml --stack-name stack_name --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM --profile profile_name
Waiting for changeset to be created..

'Status'

It exits at that point.

Reproduction Steps

Any template with only cloudformation:DescribeStacks permission in the profile

Possible Solution

No response

Additional Information/Context

No response

CLI version used

aws-cli/1.11.36 Python/2.7.10 Darwin/16.3.0 botocore/1.4.93

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

N/A

[tim-finnigan]

Thanks for reporting this issue. It appears to be a duplicate of #3982 so I'll close this to continue tracking there. Please feel free to upvote( 👍) that issue.

A couple other notes:

• 1.11.36 is a very old version of the AWS CLI. The latest v1 version if 1.29.69 per the CHANGELOG. We also recommend using v2 of the AWS CLI if possible (see installation instructions here.)
• I'm not able to access this link — not sure if it's private or if you intended to link somewhere else:

I am using the code from this example:
https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/tree/master/examples/2016-10-31/hello_world

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