[fitzoh]

>Not to mention, CloudFormation actually allows ~transactions, which is something you can't really get without cooperation from the cloud provider (terraform and pulumi both use cloudformation on AWS for exactly this reason)

Terraform and Pulumi use Cloudformation?

[habitue]

Sorry, I was mistaken about this. I was under the impression terraform would create transactions with cloudformation, but it only does this if you manually create cloudformation resources.

[dastbe]

aws recently launched cloud control, which more or less decouples the individual resource management aspect of cloudformation from everything else. providers like terraform/pulumi can use it in lieu of manual integrations with every aws api.