If you are working in CircleCi trying to deploy AWS stack and you get an error message that says “Invalid template path” and looks like this

#!/bin/bash -eo pipefail
aws cloudformation deploy \
  --template-file ec2_instance.yml \
  --stack-name create_infrastructure-${CIRCLE_WORKFLOW_ID:0:5} \
  --region us-west-2  

Invalid template path ec2_instance.yml
Exited with code exit status 255
CircleCI received exit code 255

Here is the solution:

Move your template file from inside .circleci folder to the same folder level as .circleci

For example,

From This

To this

After you have done that,

Make sure your template file name is spelled correctly in this code block

aws cloudformation deploy \
  --template-file ec2_instance.yml \
  --stack-name create_infrastructure-${CIRCLE_WORKFLOW_ID:0:5} \
  --region us-west-2  

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