I wouldn't consider myself super in love with terraform, but Cloudformation has been nearly 100% unpleasant experiences for me, though I will admit to not being an expert. Mostly it seems like it's harder to know your changes don't have any mistakes and will do exactly what you expect. Is there a CF equivalent to TF plan? We've also found TF seems to apply changes faster in many cases.

I agree CF kinda blows compared to real programming lang, and is probably legitimately better as an intermediate generated template than hand crafted code.

Even AWS has come up with a CDK to avoid building CF and use real prog langs.

I've never used it though.

I just personally think that if youre going to be a part of an ecosystem, things go much more smoothly when you stay in that ecosystem as much as possible.

Also Amazon is a massive company compared to hashicorp so I feel more comfortable about my infrastructures longevity with AWS tools.

Not saying hashicorp is going anywhere anytime soon and if it did the open-source community would probably take over, but it eliminates that tiny tiny risk.

I would probably use the AWS-CDK now instead of CF.

Im not super familiar with terraform but think change sets may compare to terraform plan?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...