AWS docs say you only pay for what you use.

Just wondering if the "Stack" by itself costs something. If I create an empty Cloudformation Stack without any resources, will it have some costs associated with it?

CodePudding user response：

An empty stack, with no resources, will not cost you any money.

From the cloudformation docs (emphasis is mine):

There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::, Alexa::, and Custom::*. In these cases, you pay for AWS resources such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc. created using AWS CloudFormation the same as if you had created them manually

so even if the stack is not empty, when using the standard resource providers, leveraging cloudformation will not cost you anything extra.