Ok so I tried to create nested stacks to get around the parameter limit errors on cloudformation and locally everything is fine but if I try and deploy I get errors about parameter count... how would I go about reducing the number of parameters so I can deploy?

By locally you mean with sst start?

Yes sst start works fine, and I did not think they would but it seems they might.

I think a nestedstack is just a normal cdk construct afaik

Hmm, well is there any way to reduce the number of parameters? I'm not even sure why there are so many.

If you look at the template in

.build/cdk.out

for the stack that you got the error on, what are all the parameters? I recall the limit is 60 parameters per stack?

The limit is actually 200 and I have 228 with 99.99% of them being this:

How many Lambda functions are there in the stack?

In the stack that specifically is 0 but theres nested stacks that add up to around 100 I can check the exact amount real quick

before you switched over to nested stacks, all of these 144 lambdas are in the same stack?

For the most part yeah the only other stack I have is a react site so if that creates any then a small portion will be that

144 lambdas in a stack seem a lot.. I’d split them up into multiple stacks

Yeah that is what I am doing now

you could also group the related lambdas into one lambda with a koa server redirecting to controller methods

CloudFormaiton is also known to get slower the more resources you have in a stack.

Yeah cloudformation is not the fastest currently though the frontend site still takes longer because cloudfront is even slower

Yeah I used to not make a lot of stacks but now I split things up aggressively because it lets CloudFormation deal with smaller bites

Yeah I now just have a top level resource stack follow by top level stacks for each api resource I have so like users stack todos stack etc