AWS CloudFormation lets you create and update a collection of related AWS resources in a predictable fashion.

Designer is a template visualization tool for creating, viewing, and modifying AWS CloudFormation templates.

Designer

To share information between stacks, export a stack's output values. Other stacks that are in the same AWS account and region can import the exported values.

Exports

The registry lists the resource types, both private and public (AWS), that are available for use in your CloudFormation account.

Registry

StackSets extends the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple accounts and regions with a single operation, by using a single AWS CloudFormation template.

StackSets

A stack is a collection of AWS resources that you can manage as a single unit. In other words, you can create, update, or delete a collection of resources by creating, updating, or deleting stacks.

Stacks

Resource import provides a way to import existing resources into CloudFormation that were created elsewhere, and move resources between, or refactor, stacks.

Resource import

IaC generator makes it easy to generate IaC configurations for existing cloud resources and allows you to onboard applications to IaC in minutes

IaC Generator

Infrastructure Composer helps you visually design and edit your stacks.

Infrastructure Composer

Public extensions are those publicly published in the registry for use by all CloudFormation users. This includes all extensions published by Amazon, as well as third-party extension publishers.

Public extensions

Activated extensions are extensions from third parties that you have explicitly activated for use in your AWS account.

Activated extensions

Publisher accounts are used to publish extensions to the CloudFormation registry.

Publisher

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