[rhooke]

Imperative version can fill more dynamic use cases, like spinning up entire servers in response to something (eg user wants to create a game server at the click of a button).

Not something you can easily do with the declarative version.

[dragonwriter]

> Not something you can easily do with the declarative version.

Its something that you can do easily with the imperative API for CloudFormation plus the declarative description of the stacks in CloudFormation.

[spullara]

That new game server could just be another cloudformation stack but I get your point.