# Direct Change Mode use cases
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The following are uses cases for Direct Change Mode:

**Resource provision and management through CloudFormation**
+ Integrate existing CloudFormation-based tooling and processes.

**Ongoing resource management and updates**
+ Small atomic changes with low risk.
+ Changes that would otherwise run through a manual or automated RFC.
+ Tooling that requires native AWS API access.
+ The DCM role can be utilized if you're in the migration stage. Migration teams leverage the permissions on the DCM to create or modify stacks.
+ DCM roles can be used in the CI/CD pipeline to build new AMIs, create Amazon ECS tasks, and so on.