Developer Tools

The command line tools serve as the client interface to the AWS CloudFormation web service. Use these tools to create and delete stacks and to view resources and events associated with a stack.

If you are installing and configuring your applications on EC2 dynamically at instance launch time, you will typically need to pull and install packages, deploy files and ensure services are started. AWS CloudFormation provides a set of helper scripts that, in conjunction with resource metadata defined in the template, can be used to install software and start services when you build your stack.

The CloudFormer tool allows you to select any of the AWS resources running in your account for inclusion in the template.