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Re:Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcea... by roncesvalles on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:05AM (#42073873)
CDK is an abomination and I'm not sure why AWS is pushing it now. A few years ago all their Quick Starts were written in CloudFormation, now it's CDK that compiles to CloudFormation. Truly a bad idea.

Just write CloudFormation directly. Once you get the hang of the declarative style and become aware of the small gotchas, it's pretty comfy.

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Re:Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcea... by nuker on Friday November 08, 2024 @05:56PM (#42091121)
> Just write CloudFormation directly. Once you get the hang of the declarative style and become aware of the small gotchas, it's pretty comfy.

Exactly this. And don't make huge templates, split stuff logically to several stacks and pass vars via export/importvalue.

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