# CloudFormation template examples for Deadline Cloud
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The [cloudformation](https://github.com/aws-deadline/deadline-cloud-samples/tree/mainline/cloudformation) directory in the deadline-cloud-samples repository contains CloudFormation templates that deploy Deadline Cloud farms and supporting infrastructure. Use these templates as a starting point and adapt them to your environment.

To compare CloudFormation with the AWS CDK and Terraform for managing Deadline Cloud infrastructure, see [Manage Deadline Cloud infrastructure as code](infrastructure-as-code.md).

**Topics**
+ [Deploy a starter Deadline Cloud farm with CloudFormation](examples-cfn-starter-farm.md)
+ [Deploy a Deadline Cloud CUDA farm with CloudFormation](examples-cfn-cuda-farm.md)
+ [Connect a Deadline Cloud fleet to FSx for OpenZFS through a VPC resource endpoint](examples-cfn-vpc-fsx.md)
+ [Manage hybrid Wait and Save plus Spot fleet capacity with CloudFormation](examples-cfn-capacity-manager.md)
+ [Schedule standby workers for a Deadline Cloud fleet with CloudFormation](examples-cfn-standby-scheduling.md)
+ [Monitor a Deadline Cloud customer-managed fleet health check with CloudFormation](examples-cfn-cmf-health-check.md)
+ [Budget threshold notifications to email and Slack with CloudFormation](examples-cfn-budget-notifications.md)
+ [Job event Slack notifications with Lambda and EventBridge](examples-cfn-slack-notifications.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Deadline Cloud. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query deadline-cloud` — 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).