Reduce AWS CloudFormation costs with these tips
Create and manage resources with templates
AWS CloudFormation cost saving tips
Optimize your AWS CloudFormation costs with these tips
Use Templates
Deploy identical environments across multiple accounts and regions via templates for optimal resource configurations, avoiding overprovisioning.
Leverage Stack Sets
Utilize stack sets to manage stacks across multiple accounts and regions in a single operation, maintaining consistency and cost-effectiveness.
Delete Unused Stacks
Remove unused stacks and redundant resources. Charges apply per API call and template size. Removing unused infrastructure optimizes these costs.
Service information & pricing
About AWS CloudFormation
- About AWS CloudFormation
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AWS CloudFormation is a service for managing AWS and third-party resources with infrastructure as code for swift cloud provisioning. It scales your infrastructure globally across all AWS regions and accounts, permitting resource control from CloudFormation Registry, your library, and the developer community. It supports app distribution, governance controls, as well as infrastructure automation and deployment via CI/CD, assuring scalability and knowledge sharing.
- AWS CloudFormation pricing
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AWS CloudFormation has no upfront costs; charges apply per handler operation (CREATE, UPDATE, DELETE, READ, LIST). No extra costs occur when used with resource providers in namespaces (AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*), just pay for resources used. Free Tier gets 1,000 free actions monthly, additional actions cost $0.0009 each, $0.00008 per second for actions longer than 30 seconds. Standard AWS data transfer rates apply.