Template – a blueprint for building your AWS resources, used to create, update or delete a CloudFormation stack (see below)
Stack – an instantiated collection of related AWS resources, as defined by the stack's CloudFormation template (see above)
Change Set – a summary of proposed changes to AWS resources provisioned by the CloudFormation stack (see above)
CloudFormation can also be used to provision most deployment components used by other services supported by Tasks for AWS, instead of using the respective built in dedicated tasks - refer to the Alternative workflow via CloudFormation section within the following overviews for details:
(optional) create and execute a change set to update the stack (with or without changes to the template) – see the Create Change Set and Execute Change Set actions of the AWS CloudFormation Stack task