AWS CloudFormation Alternatives

AWS CloudFormation is described as 'Gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to AWS CloudFormation for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and SaaS apps. The best AWS CloudFormation alternative is BitNami Application Stacks, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AWS CloudFormation are OpenTofu, Terraform, Stacktape and Turnkey Linux.

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  1. BitNami Application Stacks icon

    BitNami Application Stacks

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    BitNami Stacks make it incredibly easy to deploy your favorite open source software. BitNami Stacks include an open source application and all of the other software necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL, PHP or Ruby.

    44 BitNami Application Stacks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • BitNami Application Stacks is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to AWS CloudFormation.

    • BitNami Application Stacks is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to AWS CloudFormation.

    • BitNami Application Stacks is Free and Open SourceAWS CloudFormation is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. OpenTofu icon

    OpenTofu

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    OpenTofu is an OSS tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. OpenTofu can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    17 OpenTofu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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  4. Terraform icon

    Terraform

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    Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    17 Terraform alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Supports many types of infrastructure natively and is less AWS-centric. Cloud Formation requires users to do more work to control non-AWS services.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Terraform is Free and ProprietaryAWS CloudFormation is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Stacktape icon

    Stacktape

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    Stacktape is a tool that simplifies AWS for developers, enabling quick deployment of production-grade infrastructure. It transforms complex tasks into more manageable processes. Developers can now use an interactive config editor instead of manually writing YAML files, allowing...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Stacktape is the most popular SaaS alternative to AWS CloudFormation.

    • Stacktape is Free Personal and ProprietaryAWS CloudFormation is Freemium and Proprietary
  6. Turnkey Linux icon

    Turnkey Linux

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    TurnKey Linux provides a super simple way to deploy open source web apps/server side applications in the cloud, VM or bare metal.

    9 Turnkey Linux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
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  7. Multy Cloud icon

    Multy Cloud

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    Multy is an open-source tool that makes it easy to deploy the same infrastructure configuration on different clouds.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Multy Cloud is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to AWS CloudFormation.

    • Multy Cloud is Free and Open SourceAWS CloudFormation is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Multy Cloud is Privacy focusedAWS CloudFormation is not according to our users
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    GruCloud

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    GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code. Benefit from infrastructure as code without the hassle of manually authoring the infrastructure description.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Pulumi icon

    Pulumi

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    Pulumi is a cloud development platform. Replace YAML and DSLs with pure code. Code, deploy, manage cloud apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Microsoft Web Platform Installer icon

    Microsoft Web Platform Installer

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    The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Altostra

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    The Altostra extension makes it easy to build and deliver cloud applications directly from Visual Studio Code. It provides a drag-and-drop interface alongside the code that simplifies building cloud services to enable any developer the freedom to design and deploy locally.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    1. Visualization of cloud infrastructure
    2. Built-in deployment and environment management
    3. Automation of most DevOps functions for AWS developers.
    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Altostra is Freemium and ProprietaryAWS CloudFormation is also Freemium and Proprietary
  13. Yoke icon

    Yoke

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    The Yoke Project is a set of tools for working with package management differently than the status quo. Where once only YAML and templates of YAML ruled the representation of Kubernetes resources and the packages thereof, we can now work with code and benefit from native control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  14. Gyro Tool icon

    Gyro Tool

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    Gyro is an open source command-line tool for creating, updating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure. Gyro makes infrastructure-as-code possible. Gyro is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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