[dangus]

Thanks for that info. Apparently, I'm falling behind enough that I didn't even realize that Terraform had its own CDK as well.

I personally agree with you about CloudFormation. I dislike everything about it.

I think the people who build the Terraform and Pulumi ecosystems are plain and simple better architects than AWS employees.

I make that relatively blind assumption because I've done an interview for AWS. They optimize their hiring process for hiring blindly loyal drones. They want you to memorize company values and relate everything you've ever done to each and every value. They make you read them off a list one-by-one. It felt so dystopian to me.

AWS seems like the last place a creative, talented developer would want to go. The phone screen would scare most of them off.