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Benefits

Scale your infrastructure worldwide and manage resources across all AWS accounts and regions through a single operation.

Extend and manage your infrastructure to include cloud resources published in the AWS CloudFormation Registry, the developer community, and your library.

Automate resource management across your organization with AWS service integrations offering turnkey application distribution and governance controls.

Use cases

Automate, test, and deploy infrastructure templates with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automations.

Run anything from a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance to a complex multi-region application.

Define an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnet or provisioning services like AWS OpsWorks or Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with ease.

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