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by cosaquee 2408 days ago
Cloud formation is after lacking support for resources that are new or less popular. Terraform is much better in this, supports most of the resources from the start as far as I know
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In cloudformation, you could customize your resource types with aws lambda. It is like creating the providers in terraform.

Plus, cloudformation is free and managed service. You do not need to maintain and it is wrong, you could yell at AWS. Unless you bought terraform enterprise, it is still a pain to maintain another possible failure point in your system.

Considering the staggering breadth of AWS, it is amazing how fast and completely Terraform supports AWS.

Only a couple times have I actually encountered unsupport features (1. global WAF 2. non-canned S3 bucket policy)