The following are some of the important features of the CloudFormation Designer:

• Create templates from scratch visually, validate, and upload
• Copy existing templates, see them visually, validate, and upload
• Drag and drop the resources you need
• Define relationships between resources
• Right-click on the service and click on the appropriate context menu option to go directly to the CloudFormation documentation for that service
• Edit logical name and other properties in the auto-generated template
• Copy and paste an existing template and see it in design view
• Directly upload the script to S3 and launch Create stack wizard in a single click