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A comment on Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation. Parent comment

Re:Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation by Kreotiko on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:38PM (#28779864)
I don’t see how you couldn’t learn both. Terraform is dead simple to learn and cloud formation is the best way to define your infrastructure in code in AWS. Even more wrapped by CDK. I don’t think you would go that far career wise knowing only with Terraform for IaC.

I also don’t understand those organisations that use every single AWS managed solution (RDS, Redis, Elasticsearch, EKS) but then they feel the need to manage their infrastructure state themselves with Terraform instead of choosing the managed solution for this.

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Re:Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation by kenerwin88 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:48PM (#28779939)
As a former AWS employee, Terraform is MUCH better at scale for AWS resources than Cloudformation or even AWS CDK. CDKs reliance on CloudFormation underneath means being limited to the exact same problems that are mentioned in the article, as well as managing resources at enormous scale incredibly painful.
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