What are all the cloud resource types that salt can provision? All I can find are computer instances and volumes, which is not nearly enough to meet my needs. When bring up a new application on AWS, off the top of my head I need to create an autoscaling group, launch config, load balancer, cloudwatch alarms, dns entries, and ec2 instances.

Look at the boto_* modules here: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/salt-modindex.html#cap-m

That's more promising! Thanks for the pointer. At present the list contains

    salt.modules.boto_asg	
    salt.modules.boto_cloudwatch	
    salt.modules.boto_elasticache	
    salt.modules.boto_elb	
    salt.modules.boto_iam	
    salt.modules.boto_route53	
    salt.modules.boto_secgroup	
    salt.modules.boto_sqs

Ya, it looks like Saltstack has a pretty good handle on it just going from the docs.