Question about "template is too large to deploy" error

[abend-arg]

We have one project where the template we are trying to deploy is very long (around 550k characters). I noticed that there is one specific validation that limits the max number of characters per template to 460k as stated here:

rain/internal/aws/cfn/cfn.go

Line 67 in e303a7b

if len(templateBody) > 460800 {

Is there any specific reason for that? There is no limitation for that when uploading the template manually using the AWS console.

[ericzbeard]

The max size that can be uploaded to S3 is 1Mb, so it should be 1,048,576. The following check for 51,200 bytes is correct as the threshold for needing to upload the template. I think 460,800 was the limit when this code was written.