AWS CloudFormation

Speed up cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code

Benefits

Scale your infrastructure

Scale your infrastructure worldwide and manage resources across all AWS accounts and regions through a single operation.

Extend and manage your infrastructure

Extend and manage your infrastructure to include cloud resources published in the AWS CloudFormation Registry, the developer community, and your library.

Automate resource management

Automate resource management across your organization with AWS service integrations offering turnkey application distribution and governance controls.

Use cases

Manage infrastructure with DevOps

Automate, test, and deploy infrastructure templates with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automations.

Scale production stacks

Run anything from a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance to a complex multi-region application.

Share best practices

Define an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnet or provisioning services like AWS OpsWorks or Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with ease.

How to get started

Free tier

Try the AWS Free Tier

Connect with an expert

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Features page

Find out how CloudFormation works

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