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

For additional topics that focus on specific processes and tools for creating extensions of your own, see the following topics:

• 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 AWS CloudFormation Hooks in the AWS CloudFormation Hooks User Guide

For information about publishing your own extensions to make them available to general CloudFormation users as public extensions, see the following topics:

• Publishing extensions to make them available for public use in the CloudFormation CLI User Guide

• Publishing Hooks for public use in the AWS CloudFormation Hooks User Guide