CloudFormation
Infrastructure as Code
Overview
Developed byAmazon Web Services
Founded2011
LicenseProprietary
Open source✗ Proprietary
Use caseAWS Resource Provisioning
Technical
Protocols
Integrates with
Also see
Competes with
Knowledge graph stats
Claims52
Avg confidence95%
Avg freshness100%
Last updatedUpdated 17 days ago
WikidataQ5134032
Trust distribution
100% unverified
CloudFormation
product
AWS service for modeling and setting up cloud resources using templates for infrastructure automation.
Compare with...primary use case
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Resource Provisioning | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Infrastructure as Code | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Infrastructure as Code for AWS resources | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Infrastructure as Code provisioning and management | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Infrastructure as Code management and provisioning | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Infrastructure as Code deployment and management | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
supports service
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC2 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| S3 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Amazon S3 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Amazon EC2 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
integrates with
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS EC2 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS S3 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS Identity and Access Management | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS CDK | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS CloudTrail | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS Console | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Amazon EC2 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS Lambda | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Amazon S3 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS CLI | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS CodePipeline | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| AWS CodeCommit | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
maintained by
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
supports format
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YAML | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| YAML templates | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| JSON templates | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| JSON | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
requires
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS account | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
developed by
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
supports aws service
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon S3 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Amazon EC2 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
provides feature
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rollback on failure | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
supports protocol
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| REST API | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
pricing model
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free for CloudFormation service | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| free for stack operations | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| free for AWS resource management | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| pay per API call | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Pay-per-use | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| free service with charges for AWS resources created | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
license type
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proprietary | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
open source
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| false | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
alternative to
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| manual AWS resource provisioning | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Terraform | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Azure Resource Manager | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
| Pulumi | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
supports feature
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stack rollback | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| drift detection | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
founded year
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
launched year
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
competes with
| Value | Trust | Confidence | Freshness | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraform | ○Unverified | High | Fresh | 1 |
| Pulumi | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |
| Azure Resource Manager | ○Unverified | Moderate | Fresh | 1 |