AWS CloudFormation is Amazon's infrastructure-as-code service for provisioning AWS resources through declarative templates written in JSON or YAML. It targets teams managing infrastructure on AWS and is dedicated to the AWS ecosystem rather than multi-cloud. There is no charge for using CloudFormation on AWS resources; customers pay only for the resources they provision. It is a proprietary AWS service and is not open-source or self-hostable. The service is covered by AWS's broad compliance portfolio, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2011
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Infrastructure as code
- Free tier
- Yes: No charge for CloudFormation on AWS resources (pay only for provisioned resources).
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Approach
- Declarative
- Language
- YAML
- Multi-cloud
- No