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Developed byAmazon Web Services
Founded2011
LicenseProprietary
Open source✗ Proprietary
Use caseAWS Resource Provisioning
Technical
Protocols
REST API
Knowledge graph stats
Claims52
Avg confidence95%
Avg freshness100%
Last updatedUpdated 17 days ago
WikidataQ5134032
Trust distribution
100% unverified
Governance
EU Risknot classified
Training data disclosure

CloudFormation

product

AWS service for modeling and setting up cloud resources using templates for infrastructure automation.

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primary use case

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
AWS Resource Provisioning○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Infrastructure as Code○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Infrastructure as Code for AWS resources○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Infrastructure as Code provisioning and management○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Infrastructure as Code management and provisioning○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Infrastructure as Code deployment and management○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports service

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
EC2○UnverifiedHighFresh1
S3○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Amazon S3○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Amazon EC2○UnverifiedHighFresh1

integrates with

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
AWS EC2○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS S3○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS Identity and Access Management○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS CDK○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS CloudTrail○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS Console○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Amazon EC2○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS Lambda○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Amazon S3○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS CLI○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS CodePipeline○UnverifiedHighFresh1
AWS CodeCommit○UnverifiedHighFresh1

maintained by

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Amazon Web Services○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports format

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
YAML○UnverifiedHighFresh1
YAML templates○UnverifiedHighFresh1
JSON templates○UnverifiedHighFresh1
JSON○UnverifiedHighFresh1

requires

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
AWS account○UnverifiedHighFresh1

developed by

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Amazon Web Services○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports aws service

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Amazon S3○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Amazon EC2○UnverifiedHighFresh1

provides feature

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
rollback on failure○UnverifiedHighFresh1

supports protocol

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
REST API○UnverifiedHighFresh1

pricing model

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Free for CloudFormation service○UnverifiedHighFresh1
free for stack operations○UnverifiedHighFresh1
free for AWS resource management○UnverifiedHighFresh1
pay per API call○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Pay-per-use○UnverifiedHighFresh1
free service with charges for AWS resources created○UnverifiedHighFresh1

license type

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Proprietary○UnverifiedHighFresh1

open source

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
false○UnverifiedHighFresh1

alternative to

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
manual AWS resource provisioning○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Terraform○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Azure Resource Manager○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
Pulumi○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

supports feature

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
stack rollback○UnverifiedHighFresh1
drift detection○UnverifiedHighFresh1

founded year

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
2011○UnverifiedHighFresh1

launched year

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
2011○UnverifiedHighFresh1

competes with

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Terraform○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Pulumi○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
Azure Resource Manager○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

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Commonly Used With

AWS EC2AWS S3AWS Identity and Access ManagementAWS CDKAWS CloudTrailAWS ConsoleAmazon EC2AWS LambdaAmazon S3AWS CLIAWS CodePipelineAWS CodeCommit

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