# Deploy Environments with CloudFormation
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CloudFormation enables you to create and provision AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly. It helps you leverage AWS products to build highly reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective applications in the cloud without worrying about creating and configuring the underlying AWS infrastructure. CloudFormation enables you to use a template file to create and delete a collection of resources together as a single unit (a stack). For more information, see *[AWS CloudFormation User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/)*.

AWS Control Tower uses CloudFormation stacksets to apply controls on accounts. For more information about how CloudFormation and AWS Control Tower work together, see [Create AWS Control Tower resources with AWS CloudFormation](creating-resources-with-cloudformation.md).