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Xauntasia Mabry
Xauntasia Mabry

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To Terraform or...CloudFormation

I heavily debated whether I would start off with using Terraform to deploy the resources necessary for my homeschool education site. I'm familiar enough with the syntax to be able to create resources that I'd use, but at the same time, I'm not trying to do this at scale. I'm just building this for one-time use for my own education site. At this point, I realize this is an opportunity I don't get professionally often to manually create resources and to also use CloudFormation. So I'm taking my chances with CloudFormation...after deploying everything once manually.

Feels like a betrayal to everything I've tried to establish corporately, but maybe this leads to new revelation helpful in my day to day. For folks who use both or do similar activities professionally as you do personally from a cloud building perspective, what do you normally do?

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