# org-formation/org-formation-cli

Better than landingzones!

Repository: https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/org-formation-cli
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: aws, organizations, landing-zone, controltower, cloudformation, devops, tool, cli, patterns, best-practices, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-01-19T08:41:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 51/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 63, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2568, "days_push": 226, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1489, forks 136 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:52.280110+00:00)

## What it is
AWS Organization Formation is an Infrastructure as Code CLI tool for managing AWS Organizations, letting you define accounts, OUs, and service control policies in YAML templates. It also annotates CloudFormation for cross-account resource provisioning and automates account creation and deployment tasks via task files.

## Use cases
- manage aws organizations as code
- automate aws account creation across an organization
- deploy cloudformation stacks to multiple aws accounts
- define organizational units and service control policies in yaml
- set up an aws landing zone with infrastructure as code
- provision resources cross-account in aws

## When to choose
- you manage many AWS accounts and want declarative, version-controlled organization management
- you need cross-account CloudFormation deployments from a central pipeline
- you want to automate landing zone setup without AWS Control Tower constraints

## When to avoid
- you only have a single AWS account
- you prefer AWS Control Tower's managed landing zone experience
- you use Terraform/Pulumi for all IaC and don't want a CloudFormation-based tool

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: infrastructure-as-code, deployment, cli, configuration-management
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: aws, aws-organizations, cloudformation, landing-zone, control-tower, multi-account, service-control-policies, devops, automation, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- org-formation/org-formation-cli (main) score 51

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.280110+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:41.500259+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.280110+00:00, sha 1030b046c2cb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.