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Overview
Developed byAmazon Web Services
Licenseproprietary
Use caseInfrastructure as Code provisioning and management
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TerraformPulumi
Knowledge graph stats
Claims19
Avg confidence97%
Avg freshness100%
Last updatedUpdated 3 days ago
WikidataQ5133971
Trust distribution
100% unverified
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CloudFormation

product

AWS service for modeling and setting up Amazon Web Services resources using templates for infrastructure management.

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primary use case

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Infrastructure as Code provisioning and management○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Infrastructure as Code deployment and management○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports service

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RDS○UnverifiedHighFresh1
EC2○UnverifiedHighFresh1
S3○UnverifiedHighFresh1

developed by

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Amazon Web Services○UnverifiedHighFresh1

maintained by

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Amazon Web Services○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports format

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JSON○UnverifiedHighFresh1
YAML○UnverifiedHighFresh1

requires

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AWS account○UnverifiedHighFresh1

integrates with

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AWS CLI○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS Management Console○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS CDK○UnverifiedHighFresh1

pricing model

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pay-per-use○UnverifiedHighFresh1
free for template operations○UnverifiedHighFresh1

competes with

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Terraform○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Pulumi○UnverifiedHighFresh1

launched year

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2011○UnverifiedHighFresh1

license type

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
proprietary○UnverifiedHighFresh1

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Commonly Used With

AWS CLIAWS Management ConsoleAWS CDK

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2 entities depend on CloudFormation
AWS CognitoInfrastructure as Code
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Claim count: 19Last updated: 4/7/2026Edit history