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Why I Focus So Much On CloudFormation

Thomas Step on October 22, 2020

I wanted to quickly go over the reason I focus on describing AWS infrastructure and topics through CloudFormation templates, both here and in day-t...
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Why not Terraform?

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That's a good question. Probably because I started off using CloudFormation and just stuck with it. Do you see any benefits with using Terraform over CloudFormation? Does Terraform just translate to CloudFormation and spit out a template or does it work by calling the AWS API? Either way I think the sentiment that I was trying to get at was that IaC has a huge benefit and I think it's a shame not to utilize it.