https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new What we shipped, and what we're building — new features, integrations, and customer-felt improvements to CloudStack Canvas. en-us Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/step-functions-lambda-names https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/step-functions-lambda-names Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A Step Functions state machine definition has to reference the exact names of the Lambda functions it calls — and those names are generated at deploy time by CloudFormation, so hand-typing them is guesswork that fails only after you deploy. Now, when you connect Lambdas to a Step Functions node, th… Canvas Deploy https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/connection-meaning-at-draw-time https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/connection-meaning-at-draw-time Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Draw a line from a Lambda to a DynamoDB table and that one line can mean two very different pieces of infrastructure: an IAM policy that lets the function read and write the table, or a DynamoDB stream that triggers the function on every change. Until now you picked between them in the properties p… Canvas IaC Engine https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/property-panel-required-fields https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/property-panel-required-fields Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT We got lost in our own properties panel. Building a stack for a test run, we could not find where to set a DynamoDB partition key — it sat mid-list under a friendly label, looking exactly like every optional field around it. If the people who wrote the panel can lose a required field, you were losi… Canvas https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/templates-deployed-against-real-aws https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/templates-deployed-against-real-aws Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Last week we certified the catalog — lint-clean output, required properties and IAM wiring verified, all of it gated in CI. Today we held the 12 starter templates to the only bar that finally matters: does CloudFormation actually build the stack? So we deployed them against a real AWS account — 44… Deploy IaC Engine https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/plans-and-billing-live https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/plans-and-billing-live Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Billing is on, and the free tier is real: 2 projects, 30 nodes per canvas, and 25 exports a month, with CloudFormation output in both JSON and YAML. Pro is $39 a month for individuals — unlimited projects and exports, the full service catalog, a live monthly cost estimate, security findings detail,… https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/share-links-and-live-findings https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/share-links-and-live-findings Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Until now, the only way to show someone your architecture was a screenshot. That was backwards — showing your work is the whole point of a diagram — so sharing is free, on every plan. Every project can now mint a public read-only link: create, copy, and revoke it from the dashboard. Anyone with the… Canvas https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/fifty-certified-services https://cloudstackcanvas.com/whats-new/fifty-certified-services Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A service on the canvas only counts if the template it exports deploys. So certified means something specific here: the service has its own generator module, the CloudFormation it produces passes cfn-lint, required properties and IAM wiring are verified, and those checks run in CI on every code cha… IaC Engine Deploy