AWS Audit Manager will no longer be open to new customers starting April 30, 2026. If you would like to use Audit Manager, sign up prior to that date. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see AWS Audit Manager availability change.
Creating AWS Audit Manager resources with AWS CloudFormation
AWS Audit Manager 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 assessments), and CloudFormation provisions and configures those resources for you.
When you use CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your AWS Audit Manager resources consistently and repeatedly. Describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions.
AWS Audit Manager and CloudFormation templates
To provision and configure resources for AWS Audit Manager and related services, you must understand CloudFormation templates. 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? in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
AWS Audit Manager supports creating assessments in CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for assessments, see the AWS Audit Manager resource type reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Learn more about CloudFormation
To learn more about CloudFormation, see the following resources:
