Service Catalog

This section covers standardised self-service provisioning: how a platform team publishes an approved way to create a database, a VPC or an application stack, and how a delivery team then uses it without being granted the permissions to build one by hand.

Start with AWS Service Catalog, which is the surviving AWS service for this. It packages CloudFormation templates as versioned products, groups them into portfolios, and uses launch constraints so the deployment runs under a role’s permissions rather than the user’s.

AWS Proton covered adjacent ground for container and serverless application templates. It is being shut down on 7 October 2026 and has taken no new customers since October 2025 — that page explains what to use instead.