AWS CloudFormation

By Amazon Web Services ยท Infrastructure as code

About AWS CloudFormation

AWS's native infrastructure as code service, which creates and updates AWS resources from JSON or YAML templates.

Details

  • Free plan or free tier

    Yes

  • Works with AWS

    Yes

Not enough info yet on open source, has an API, works with Kubernetes. Check the tool's own site.

Listing written by ClingCloud, checked 2026-11-03. Report a correction or request removal. Back to infrastructure as code.

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