[swindmill]

https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere is a good option here

Also https://github.com/russellballestrini/botoform looks to be a newer solution in this space

Terraform is another option and then there's the model we're actively moving towards at work: using Ansible to abstract and completely replace calls to CloudFormation with a combination of existing and bespoke modules to dynamically spin up the infrastructure we need.