title: AWS cloudformation: One big template file or many small ones?
body: <p>I'm about to rewrite a lot of my aws deployment code to launch everything with cloudformation controlled by boto, instead of bringing up each element on its own with boto. Does anyone know if its "best practice" to use one giant template file, which kicks everything off together, or a lot of smaller ones?</p>
  
  <p>The advantage of one giant one seems to be that AWS handles all the dependancies for you so will bring things up slightly faster. The clear disadvantage is that it seems like a nightmare to maintain.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone tried combining their template files at run time so that they are treated as one large one, or does that get difficult to maintain?</p>