Template validation error: Template contains invalid characters

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Amazon Kinesis Data Visualization Sample Application

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Template validation error: Template contains invalid characters #1

Open JonathanBowker opened 9 years ago

JonathanBowker commented 9 years ago

I have downloaded the sample application template (kinesis-data-vis-sample-app.template) from GitHub. Saved the template file to my computer's local drive.

Logged in to the AWS CloudFormation console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home.

Created New Stack and get the following Error Message:

Error Template validation error: Template contains invalid characters

Any ideas why this may be

ankitgin commented 6 years ago

Sometime .docx files get this issue. Try saving your cloud formation template in .txt file. This is should work. If somehow issue is still present try encoding the txt file in acsii format.