cfn-lint and aws cloudformation validate-template

[rchildress87]

I am creating a pipeline for deploying CloudFormation templates to an AWS account. Currently, I have the pipeline configured to check for YAML formatting errors, lint with cfn-lint, and then send off to the AWS CloudFormation API for validation with aws cloudformation validate-template. I have started to wonder if validating against the CloudFormation API is redundant. Are there any checks that the CloudFormation API performs when validating a template that cfn-lint does not already perform?

[rchildress87]

The AWS documentation seems to suggest that validate-template only checks the syntax of the template. It would seem that cfn-lint does this plus much more. Initially, the only thing I've found that validate-template "brings to the table" is the output letting you know which capabilities are needed and a the nice list of parameters.