[Waterluvian]

The console is absolutely indispensable. You need it for your majority of aws users who are doing it for the first or second time. You need it for quick lookups, prototyping, experimentation.

Then when you have the Lego design you want, yes, you whip out cloudformation or bash scripts or Python scripts or ansible or whatever else.

[erik_seaberg]

I was astonished to learn that you can sort of scrape your from-console resources into a CloudFormation template, but you cannot get a stack to manage them inplace. Instead you have to blow them away (manually!) and have CloudFormation create a new stack from scratch, because it only touches stuff it created with hidden stack tags.

Terraform import is pretty painful but at least it can handle this.