CloudFormation Bug: S3 Server Access Logs
When no value is set, Server Access Logging gets enabled and set to the bucket CloudFormation is creating
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CloudFormation seems to have a bug with the LoggingConfiguration property. When I set the DestinationBucketName and the LogFilePrefix name to AWS::NoValue, the bucket ends up having a service access log bucket with the bucket itself.
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In this case no access log bucket should be set and server access logging should be disabled.
There may be a different way to achieve this objective but in any case, no value should be set for the logging bucket if no value is passed to the CloudFormation template.
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