Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation
Counterpoint... Use CloudFormation!<p>Managed services offer big benefits over software. With CF, new stacks, change sets, updates, rollbacks and drift detection are an API call away.<p>Managed service providers offer big benefits over software. With CF and AWS support, help with problems are a support ticket away.<p>Using a single cloud provider has a big benefit over a multi-cloud tooling. I only run workloads on AWS, so the CF syntax, specs and docs unlocks endless first party features. A portable Terraform + Kubernetes contraption is a lowest common denominator approach.<p>Of course everything depends.<p>I&#x27;ve configured literally 1000s of systems with CloudFormation with very few problems.<p>I have seen Terraform turn into a tire-fire of migrations from state files to Terraform enterprise to Atlantis that took an entire DevOps team to care for.