Managing extensions with the CloudFormation registry

The AWS CloudFormation registry serves as a centralized hub for managing extensions that can be integrated into the CloudFormation templates in your AWS account. Extensions include resource types, modules, and Hooks from AWS and third-party publishers, and your own custom extensions. The registry makes it easier to discover and provision extensions in your CloudFormation templates in the same manner you use AWS-provided resources.

This section describes how to use the CloudFormation registry to activate third-party extensions in your account, including:

• Activating public extensions

• Registering and activating private extensions

Topics

• Related documentation

• CloudFormation registry concepts

• View the available and activated extensions in the CloudFormation registry

• Use third-party public extensions from the CloudFormation registry

• Use third-party private extensions that have been shared with you

• Edit configuration data for extensions in your account

• Record resource types in AWS Config

Related documentation

If you are a developer interested in creating your own extensions, see the following documentation:

• Developing modules using the CloudFormation CLI in the CloudFormation Command Line Interface User Guide

• Creating resource types using the CloudFormation CLI in the CloudFormation Command Line Interface User Guide

• Developing custom Hooks using the CloudFormation CLI in the AWS CloudFormation Hooks User Guide

Additionally, all provisionable AWS resource types available in the CloudFormation registry can be used with the AWS Cloud Control API, with their attributes and properties defined in a standard JSON schema. For more information, see the Cloud Control API User Guide. When using Cloud Control API to perform CRUDL (Create, Read, Update, Delete, List) operations on AWS resources, you can only do so on AWS resources within your own AWS account.