[lozenge]

It seems like AWS isn't good with cross cutting concerns. Eg instead of Cloudformation being part of a service during development, that they could even use during testing the service, every team creates a custom api and cf is an afterthought. It wouldn't surprise me if every service is also evaluating against iam policies independently as well.

[rollthehard6]

That reminds me of the latter stages of Sun Microsystems, where it seemed like multiple teams were developing competing solutions for system management and patching. Seems a wasteful model and not one that is servicing customers.

[grogenaut]

Much of the services were built well before clod formation... Or cloud formation became popular... Or before everyone was willing to make the trade-off that features come later because they had to have cloud formation. Like any other best practice you invent along the way. I'll bet there's something about your 1/3/5/10/15 year old that isn't up to current snuff.

People forget, AWS is massive and taking care of edge case after edge case while being in a bullet point war with other cloud providers.

[erik_seaberg]

Even new features sometimes don’t get CloudFormation support for quite a while (sometimes longer than third-party support like Terraform). I keep wondering why they didn’t want it for their own integration testing.