# Amazon CloudFormation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudformation/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure-as-code service that speeds up cloud provisioning by enabling developers to define and manage AWS resources programmatically through templates. Scale infrastructure globally and manage resources across all AWS accounts and regions through a single operation.

## Kin Score — 53.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 53.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.3 |
| Contract Quality | 74.0 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 39.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Amazon CloudFormation Change Sets API** — Operations for managing CloudFormation change sets
- **Amazon CloudFormation Resources API** — Operations for managing stack resources
- **Amazon CloudFormation Stacks API** — Operations for managing CloudFormation stacks
- **Amazon CloudFormation Templates API** — Operations for working with CloudFormation templates

## MCP servers (1)

- **AWS IaC MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Cloudformation Agentic Access** — 13 operations

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Cloudformation Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Cloudformation Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Cloudformation Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Cloudformation Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Use cases (4)

- **DevOps Automation** — Automate infrastructure testing and deployment through CI/CD pipelines.
- **Multi-Region Deployment** — Deploy consistent infrastructure across multiple AWS regions.
- **Compliance Governance** — Enforce organizational infrastructure standards through template guardrails.
- **Disaster Recovery** — Rapidly rebuild infrastructure from templates after failures.

## Tags

CloudFormation, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, IaC

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-cloudformation/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.