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# Amazon resource and property types reference
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This section contains reference information for all Amazon resource and property types that are supported by Amazon CloudFormation.

Resource type identifiers always take the following form:

```
{{service-provider}}::{{service-name}}::{{data-type-name}}
```

**Topics**
+ [Shared property types](cfn-reference-shared.md)