Cdk nag causing error generating Amplify outputs

[waltmayf]

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JavaScript Framework

React, Next.js

Amplify APIs

GraphQL API

Amplify Version

v6

Amplify Categories

auth

Backend

Amplify Gen 2

Environment information

  System:
    OS: macOS 15.2
    CPU: (11) arm64 Apple M3 Pro
    Memory: 90.50 MB / 18.00 GB
    Shell: 5.9 - /bin/zsh
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Describe the bug

When you use cdk nag on an amplify project, the amplify_outputs.json file is not generated due to a ZodError.

Expected behavior

The amplify_outputs.json file should successfully generate.

Reproduction steps

When I run the sandbox command, I get the error below about the amplify_outputs.json not successfully generating.
npx ampx sandbox

Code Snippet

Code to reproduce error:

amplify/backend.ts

import { AwsSolutionsChecks } from 'cdk-nag'
import { auth } from './auth/resource';

const backend = defineBackend({
  auth
})

// Nag Suppression Code

Aspects.of(backend.auth.stack).add(new AwsSolutionsChecks({ verbose: true }))

Log output

✨  Deployment time: 150.97s

Outputs:
...
Stack ARN:
arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-1:xxxxxxx

✨  Total time: 151.7s


NOTICES         (What's this? https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/wiki/CLI-Notices)

31885   (cli): Bootstrap stack outdated

        Overview: The bootstrap stack in aws://103761460084/us-east-1 is outdated.
                  We recommend at least version 21, distributed with CDK CLI
                  2.149.0 or higher. Please rebootstrap your environment by
                  runing 'cdk bootstrap aws://103761460084/us-east-1'

        Affected versions: bootstrap: <21

        More information at: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/31885


If you don’t want to see a notice anymore, use "cdk acknowledge <id>". For example, "cdk acknowledge 31885".
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[
  {
    "code": "invalid_type",
    "expected": "string",
    "received": "undefined",
    "path": [
      "cdk_nag",
      "version"
    ],
    "message": "Required"
  },
  {
    "code": "invalid_type",
    "expected": "array",
    "received": "undefined",
    "path": [
      "cdk_nag",
      "stackOutputs"
    ],
    "message": "Required"
  }
]
Amplify outputs could not be generated. ZodError: [
  {
    "code": "invalid_type",
    "expected": "string",
    "received": "undefined",
    "path": [
      "cdk_nag",
      "version"
    ],
    "message": "Required"
  },
  {
    "code": "invalid_type",
    "expected": "array",
    "received": "undefined",
    "path": [
      "cdk_nag",
      "stackOutputs"
    ],
    "message": "Required"
  }
]

aws-exports.js

No response

Manual configuration

No response

Additional configuration

No response

Mobile Device

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Mobile Operating System

No response

Mobile Browser

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Mobile Browser Version

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Additional information and screenshots

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[cwomack]

Hey, @waltmayf 👋. Going to transfer this issue to the amplify-backend repo for better assistance.

[ykethan]

Hey @waltmayf, thank you for reaching out. On a quick test i was unable to reproduce the issue. Could you provide us the following information.
Does the error occur on each deployment and does the error message also occur without the cdk-nag aspects?
Additionally, could try upgrading @aws-amplify/backend and @aws-amplify/backend-cli then retry the sandbox command?

[waltmayf]

@ykethan, Thank you for the reply.
I have upgraded to the most recent @aws-ampliy backend and backend-cli packages. Here is part of the response to npm list
├── @aws-amplify/backend-cli@1.4.7
├── @aws-amplify/backend@1.13.0

I can confirm that I'm still getting the same error.

[ykethan]

Marking this as bug for further investigation. I was able to reproduce the issue using the following

Aspects.of(stack1).add(new AwsSolutionsChecks({ verbose: true }));
Aspects.of(stack2).add(
  new AwsSolutionsChecks({ verbose: true })
);
Aspects.of(stack3).add(new AwsSolutionsChecks({ verbose: true }));

const applyStackSupperssions = (
  stack: Stack,
  suppressions: { id: string; reason: string }[]
) => {
  NagSuppressions.addStackSuppressions(stack, suppressions);
  // Recursively apply suppressions to nested stacks
  const nestedStacks = stack.node.children
    .filter((child) => child instanceof NestedStack)
    .map((child) => child as NestedStack);

  for (const nestedStack of nestedStacks) {
    applyStackSupperssions(nestedStack, suppressions);
  }
};

export const cdkNagSupperssionsHandler = (stack: Stack) => {
  // Apply suppressions to the current stack
  const suppressions = [
    {
      id: "AwsSolutions-IAM4",
      reason:
        "test1",
    },
    {
      id: "AwsSolutions-IAM5",
      reason:
        "test2",
    },
    {
      id: "AwsSolutions-L1",
      reason: `test3'`,
    },
    {
      id: "AwsSolutions-RDS10",
      reason: `test1`,
    },
    {
      id: "AwsSolutions-SMG4",
      reason: "test1",
    },
  ];

error:

Amplify outputs could not be generated. ZodError: [
  {
    "code": "invalid_type",
    "expected": "string",
    "received": "undefined",
    "path": [
      "cdk_nag",
      "version"
    ],
    "message": "Required"
  },
  {
    "code": "invalid_type",
    "expected": "array",
    "received": "undefined",
    "path": [
      "cdk_nag",
      "stackOutputs"
    ],
    "message": "Required"
  }
]

This appears to be due to cdk-nag adding to the stack metadata and Amplify reading from the metadata
https://github.com/cdklabs/cdk-nag/blob/c977f58486fea812516ca459077291f8f9381170/src/nag-suppressions.ts#L30