The following command deploys a template named S3_ROOT_TEMPLATE to a stack named STACK_NAME:
STACK_NAME="cfn-demo"
S3_ROOT_TEMPLATE="cfn-demo.yaml"
REGION="us-east-1"
bucket_name="cfn-demo-bucket"
aws cloudformation deploy --stack-name $STACK_NAME --template-file $S3_ROOT_TEMPLATE --parameter-overrides $PARAMS[@] --region $REGION
If your templates are sized greater than 51,200 bytes, then the name of the S3 bucket where this command uploads your CloudFormation template.
aws cloudformation deploy --stack-name $STACK_NAME --template-file $S3_ROOT_TEMPLATE --parameter-overrides $PARAMS[@] --region $REGION --s3-bucket $bucket_name
For updating the stack, you could upload the template file to the S3 bucket by using copy and then, update the stack by using the S3 object URL as the template source.
aws s3 cp $S3_ROOT_TEMPLATE s3://$bucket_name
aws cloudformation update-stack --stack-name $STACK_NAME --template-url https://$bucket_name.s3.$REGION.amazonaws.com/$S3_ROOT_TEMPLATE