(nested-stack): impossible to manually set Nested Stack Name

[amir-faliam]

Description

I want to be able to manually set the name of a NestedStack but currently there is no way to do so.

Use Case

I'm migrating my infrastructure from Amplify over to CDK and my strategy for refactoring the management of the resources is to maintain the stack/resource names when I recreate them in CDK.

All of the other resources (i.e. root stack, Cognito, Dynamodb, etc) haven't been an issue, but nested stack seems to be the only thing we can't manually set the name on.

It seems weird that we can define stack names for root stack but not for nested stacks.

Proposed Solution

introduce stack name as a parameter for NestedStackProps similar to how it's done for normal Cloudformation Stacks

Other information

No response

Acknowledge

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

[rix0rrr]

It does not seem to be possible:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-stack.html

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[flyingImer]

@rix0rrr
the nested stack name is auto generated from its logical id by CFN, currently the logical id is authored by CDK in the format of <nested-stack-id>NestedStack<nested-stack-id>NestedStackResources, which is not that readable, I feel (similar request: #19099)

it would be great to let CDK user to provide the logical id, which may be close to the request