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AWS CloudFormation

A collection of APIs provided by AWS for infrastructure as code provisioning and management of AWS and third-party resources using CloudFormation templates and the Cloud Control API.

2 APIs 1 Capabilities 6 Features
AutomationAWSCloud ResourcesIaCInfrastructure As CodeStack Management

APIs

AWS CloudFormation API

AWS CloudFormation gives you an easy way to model a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, provision them quickly and consistently, and manage them throughout thei...

AWS Cloud Control API

AWS Cloud Control API provides a uniform CRUDL (create, read, update, delete, list) interface for managing AWS and third-party resources. It offers a standardized way to access ...

Capabilities

AWS Infrastructure Provisioning

Unified workflow for AWS infrastructure provisioning combining CloudFormation stack management with Cloud Control API resource operations. Used by cloud engineers and platform t...

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Features

Infrastructure As Code

Define and provision AWS infrastructure using declarative JSON/YAML templates

Stack Management

Create, update, and delete collections of AWS resources as a single unit

Change Sets

Preview changes before applying them to running stacks

Drift Detection

Detect when stack resources have been modified outside of CloudFormation

Stack Sets

Deploy stacks across multiple accounts and regions simultaneously

Cloud Control CRUDL

Uniform interface for managing any resource in the CloudFormation Registry

Use Cases

Multi-Account Deployment

Deploy consistent infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts with Stack Sets

Environment Provisioning

Spin up identical dev, staging, and production environments from templates

Compliance Auditing

Detect configuration drift and enforce infrastructure compliance

Integrations

AWS CDK

Define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages that compile to CloudFormation

AWS SAM

Simplified syntax for serverless application deployment via CloudFormation

Terraform

Alternative IaC tool that can import/export CloudFormation templates

Semantic Vocabularies

Cloud Control Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Cloudformation Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

context Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

API Governance Rules

AWS CloudFormation API Rules

7 rules · 7 errors

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AWS CLI - CloudFormation
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Rain - CloudFormation CLI
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Stack Schema
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Template Schema
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Resource Schema
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Change Set Schema
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Change Schema
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Change Set Detail Schema
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Change Set Summary Schema
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Error Response Schema
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Stack Detail Schema
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Stack Event Schema
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Stack Resource Schema
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Stack Summary Schema
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Tag Schema
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Cloud Control Progress Event Schema
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Cloud Control Resource Description Schema
JSONSchema
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Cloud Control Error Response Schema
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JSON-LD Context
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CloudFormation JSON-LD Context
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Cloud Control JSON-LD Context
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CloudFormation Vocabulary
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Spectral Rules
Rules
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Infrastructure Provisioning Workflow
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CloudFormation Shared Capability
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Cloud Control Shared Capability
Capabilities