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title: Pulumi vs. Cloud Templates (AWS CloudFormation, etc.)
meta_desc: This page gives an overview of the major differences between Pulumi
and Cloud Templates (AWS CloudFormation, etc.).
title: Pulumi vs. AWS CloudFormation and Other Templates
meta_desc: This page gives an overview of the major differences between Pulumi and Cloud Templates such as AWS CloudFormation.
linktitle: Cloud Templates
menu:
intro:
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These markup-based configuration files are often uploaded to a hosted service in the target cloud, where a hosted
service will then process the files to create, update, or delete resources as necessary.

Pulumi's model shares a lot with these systems. Although Pulumi programs are written in imperative, familiar languages,
they are ultimately evaluated to produce a similar set of create, update, or delete operations for your cloud resources.
Pulumi offers a multi-cloud alternative to more restrictive infrastructure-as-code template solutions, like AWS CloudFormation. Pulumi allows you to streamline processes by managing resources from different platforms all in one place, using real code, in your favorite language.

This is where Pulumi begins to diverge from these other solutions, however.

Pulumi lets you use your favorite languages, instead of bespoke templating solutions. These typically use syntaxes that
are awkward, hard to learn, and even harder to remember. Pulumi programs are just real code. Thanks to basic things
like functions and classes, we've seen 25,000 line CloudFormation templates shrink to just a few hundred lines of code.
This approach also leads to far less copy and pasting between projects because you can share packages.
Pulumi lets you use your favorite languages, instead of bespoke templating solutions such as CloudFormation. These
typically use syntaxes that are awkward, hard to learn, and even harder to remember. Pulumi programs are just real
code. Thanks to basic things like functions and classes, we've seen 25,000 line CloudFormation templates shrink to
just a few hundred lines of code. This approach also leads to far less copy and pasting between projects because you can share packages.

Pulumi is also multi-cloud. So, you only need to learn one programming model, tool, and workflow. In fact, you can
easily manage resources from different clouds, easing what would otherwise require manual orchestration. For example
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configuration templates as a sort of "compilation" step. These offer nice syntactic sugar on top of the raw
templates, but the underlying model leaks through and carries forward all of the other abovementioned shortcomings.

Finally, Pulumi is [open source](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi) and community-driven. All of the cloud systems are
proprietary closed source, lead to lock-in, and lack the ability for the community to contribute to them.
Finally, Pulumi is [open source](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi) and community-driven. All of the other cloud systems — such as Azure Resource Manager or AWS CloudFormation — are proprietary closed source, lead to lock-in, and lack the ability for the community to contribute to them.