Draw your infrastructure on a canvas — connections, dependencies, everything. CloudStack Canvas validates your design and exports deployment-ready CloudFormation.
From diagram to Git, zero hours debugging templates.
Free tier — 2 projects, 25 exports per month. No credit card.
Every export passes validation before you download it. No more CloudFormation errors.
Your exports are checked by 150+ deploy constraints before download — catching syntax errors, missing properties, and AWS-specific issues. Generated services pass cfn-lint in CI.
IAM roles, security group rules, and VPC networking are created automatically based on your connections. No manual permission config needed.
See estimated monthly AWS costs before you deploy. Design cost-effectively using real pricing data from your architecture diagram.
All 52 supported AWS services and all 12 starter templates are certified — generated CloudFormation passes cfn-lint checks in CI on every code change.
Integrated workflows for collaboration and deployment.
Share a read-only view of any design with a link — free on every plan. Stakeholders can review your architecture without a CloudStack Canvas account.
Push your CloudFormation straight to a GitHub branch and open a PR — without leaving the canvas. Pro plan feature for seamless version control integration.
Security findings as you design: public buckets, wildcard IAM, world-open security groups — flagged on the canvas. Pro plan feature.
The things that normally need a cloud engineer — VPCs, subnets, IAM roles, security groups, networking rules — are handled automatically in Simple Mode.
You pick what you want to build. CloudStack Canvas makes sure it's set up correctly and deploys without errors.
You: You draw an EC2 instance
Canvas: CSC creates the IAM role and security group automatically
You: You connect a Lambda to a database
Canvas: CSC adds the correct permissions and VPC wiring
You: You click Export
Canvas: CSC validates the template and flags anything that would fail before you deploy
Pick a goal — CSC has a template that gets you there in minutes.
Drop an S3 bucket and a CloudFront distribution onto the canvas. CSC connects them and configures HTTPS automatically.
A globally distributed static website or web app — ready to deploy.
Add ECS, an ALB, and a database. CSC wires the networking, IAM task roles, and security groups so they can talk to each other.
A production-ready container setup with load balancing and a connected database.
Connect Lambda to API Gateway and DynamoDB. CSC generates the execution role, log groups, and all the plumbing automatically.
A serverless backend that scales to zero when idle and handles any traffic spike.
Load the Billing Alarm template. Enter your email and adjust dollar thresholds — CSC generates the CloudWatch alarms and SNS notifications.
Email alerts when your AWS bill crosses $10, $50, or $100 — or spikes in a single day.
Three steps from idea to running infrastructure.
Pick the AWS services you need from the left panel and drag them onto the canvas. Connect them the way they should communicate — like drawing a diagram on a whiteboard.
No AWS expertise needed. If you know you need a server, a database, and a website — that's enough to get started.
CloudStack Canvas automatically creates the networking rules, security settings, and permissions your design needs. The things that usually require an AWS specialist are done for you.
Every connection on the canvas becomes the correct AWS configuration in the exported template.
Click Export IaC to download your infrastructure template. Upload it to AWS CloudFormation — a few clicks in the AWS Console — and your infrastructure is live.
AWS CloudFormation is free to use. You only pay for the actual resources it creates.
There are other ways to get infrastructure on AWS. Here's how they compare.
Read detailed comparisons →| CloudStack Canvas | Hiring DevOps | AWS Console by hand | Raw CloudFormation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS knowledge needed | None required | Required | Required | Required |
| Time to first deployment | ~15 minutes | Days to weeks | Hours | Hours |
| IAM roles & security groups | Auto-generated | Manual | Manual | Manual |
| Repeatable infrastructure | ✓ | Sometimes | ✗ | ✓ |
| Team collaboration | ✓ Team | Yes | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cost | From free | $80–150/hr | Free | Free |
Switch to Advanced mode for complete property access — custom resource names, tags, manual dependency wiring, and CloudFormation import to visualize existing infrastructure.
Templates export topologically sorted CloudFormation with correct Ref/GetAtt cross-links, standard Parameters and Outputs, and validation that catches errors before you deploy.
All with correct CloudFormation resource types and automatic dependency resolution.
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