Unhelpful Error Message: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined

$ amplify push ✔ Successfully pulled backend environment dopry from the cloud. Current Environment: dopry

Category	Resource name	Operation	Provider plugin
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✖ An error occurred when pushing the resources to the cloud

Cannot read property ‘length’ of undefined An error occurred during the push operation: Cannot read property ‘length’ of undefined

What does this error mean? After trying all the sub-commands amplify push function shows me

Cannot read property 'length' of undefined
TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined
    at C:\Users\dopry\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@aws-amplify\cli\node_modules\amplify-provider-awscloudformation\src\push-resources.ts:802:57
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at C:\Users\dopry\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@aws-amplify\cli\node_modules\amplify-provider-awscloudformation\src\push-resources.ts:786:15
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at formNestedStack (C:\Users\dopry\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@aws-amplify\cli\node_modules\amplify-provider-awscloudformation\src\push-resources.ts:783:14)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
    at Object.run (C:\Users\dopry\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@aws-amplify\cli\node_modules\amplify-provider-awscloudformation\src\push-resources.ts:216:29)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at providersPush (C:\Users\dopry\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@aws-amplify\cli\src\extensions\amplify-helpers\push-resources.ts:90:3)
    at AmplifyToolkit.pushResources [as _pushResources] (C:\Users\dopry\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@aws-amplify\cli\src\extensions\amplify-helpers\push-resources.ts:66:7)

What length of what exactly? Which function resource has a problem? This error message is not helpful.

Processing each template and component should be wrapped in a try/catch and you should let developers know what is failing.

[dopry]

not like it makes a difference since you can go straight to https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-cli/blob/b5f917a81524feb64ec7e674c6213cb47fd7794c/packages/amplify-provider-awscloudformation/src/push-resources.ts#L800 and see the code accessing .length on the potentially empty attributes array. lazy

but node 14/LTS and amplify 4.41.2

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