# AWS CloudFormation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cloudformation/  
**Website:** https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/resources/  
**APIs profiled:** 13

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.

## Kin Score — 60.0 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 60.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 65.8 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 81.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 68.4 |
| Access Clarity | 68.4 |

## Agent readiness — 46.8 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (13)

- **AWS CloudFormation Change Sets API** — Operations for creating and managing change sets to preview stack changes.
- **AWS CloudFormation Exports API** — Operations for listing stack exports and imports.
- **AWS CloudFormation Registry API** — Operations for managing extension types in the CloudFormation Registry.
- **AWS CloudFormation Request Status API** — Operations for tracking the status of asynchronous resource operations and cancelling in-progress requests.
- **AWS CloudFormation Resources API** — CRUDL operations for creating, reading, updating, deleting, and listing cloud resources through a uniform interface.
- **AWS CloudFormation Stack Drift API** — Operations for detecting and describing configuration drift.
- **AWS CloudFormation Stack Events API** — Operations for retrieving stack-related events.
- **AWS CloudFormation Stack Instances API** — Operations for managing stack instances within a stack set.
- **AWS CloudFormation Stack Policies API** — Operations for getting and setting stack policies.
- **AWS CloudFormation Stack Resources API** — Operations for describing resources within a stack.
- **AWS CloudFormation Stack Sets API** — Operations for managing stack sets across multiple accounts and regions.
- **AWS CloudFormation Stacks API** — Operations for creating, updating, deleting, and describing CloudFormation stacks.
- **AWS CloudFormation Templates API** — Operations for retrieving, validating, and summarizing templates.

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cloudformation Agentic Access** — 49 operations · 49 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Cloudformation Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (3)

- **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

## Tags

Automation, Cloud Resources, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Stack Management

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