Amazon CloudFormation

Amazon CloudFormation Stacks API

Operations for managing CloudFormation stacks

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IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 11

GET /?Action=CreateStack Amazon CloudFormation Create a stack #

POST /?Action=CreateStack Create Stack #

GET /?Action=DescribeStacks Amazon CloudFormation Describe stacks #

POST /?Action=DescribeStacks Describe Stacks #

GET /?Action=UpdateStack Amazon CloudFormation Update a stack #

POST /?Action=UpdateStack Update Stack #

GET /?Action=DeleteStack Amazon CloudFormation Delete a stack #

POST /?Action=DeleteStack Delete Stack #

GET /?Action=ListStacks Amazon CloudFormation List stacks #

POST /?Action=ListStacks List Stacks #

POST /?Action=ImportStacksToStackSet Import Stacks To Stack Set #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon Cloudformation Stacks API
  version: '2010-05-15'
  description: 'Operations tagged Stacks across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: amazon-cloudformation-openapi.yml, amazon-cloudformation-stacks-api-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://cloudformation.amazonaws.com
  description: Amazon CloudFormation regional endpoint
- url: https://cloudformation.{region}.amazonaws.com
  description: Amazon CloudFormation regional endpoint
  variables:
    region:
      default: us-east-1
      description: The AWS region
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-cloudformation/openapi/amazon-cloudformation-stacks-api-openapi.yml

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