# Creating AWS B2B Data Interchange resources with AWS CloudFormation
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AWS B2B Data Interchange is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a service that helps you to model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want (such as profiles, partnerships, trading capabilities, and transformers), and CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you. 

When you use CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your AWS B2B Data Interchange resources consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions. 

## AWS B2B Data Interchange and CloudFormation templates
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To provision and configure resources for AWS B2B Data Interchange and related services, you must understand [CloudFormation templates](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/template-guide.html). Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with CloudFormation templates. For more information, see [What is CloudFormation Designer?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/working-with-templates-cfn-designer.html) in the *AWS CloudFormation User Guide*.

AWS B2B Data Interchange supports creating profiles, partnerships, trading capabilities, and transformers in CloudFormation. For more information, see the [AWS B2B Data Interchange resource type reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/AWS_B2BI.html) in the *AWS CloudFormation User Guide*. 

## Learn more about CloudFormation
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To learn more about CloudFormation, see the following resources:
+ [AWS CloudFormation](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/)
+ [AWS CloudFormation User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html)
+ [CloudFormation API Reference](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html)
+ [AWS CloudFormation Command Line Interface User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation-cli/latest/userguide/what-is-cloudformation-cli.html)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS B2B Data Interchange. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query b2bi` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).