Cloudformation Vs Apis

Some thoughts about infrastructure as code (IaC) build on top of cloudformation (eg. CDK, SAM) vs IaC build on top of APIs (eg. Terraform, Pulumi)

Note that this is NOT going into the merits of using a declarative DSL or a programming language to do IaC or even doing IaC outside of AWS - the following points are solely for evaluating the effectiveness of doing IaC with cloudformation at the base vs API calls.

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Created 2023-06-14T00:32:10.467000, updated 2023-06-14T00:40:13.817000 · History · Edit