[jryan49]

Isn't pulumi aws just terraform under the hood still? Why wouldn't I just use terraform's CDKTF instead?

[sigwinch28]

>Isn't pulumi aws just terraform under the hood still?

It depends.

The AWS "Classic" provider uses the terraform provider [1].

The AWS "Native" provider does not, and instead uses the AWS Cloud Control API [2].

[1]: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws

[2]: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws-native

[re-thc]

CDKTF feels like a giant hack (yes, used it).

No everything is available vs TF HCL, it uses CDK from AWS CDK and tries to bridge things to TF have codegen. There’s a lot of weird corner cases and inconveniences. It even uses React under the hood.

Pulumi at least takes care of it better. Maybe not perfectly but better.

[mzi]

Yes, pulumi is just wrapping terraform[1]. So you need to understand both the quirks of that and the quirks of pulumi. And I'm lazy so I just want to deal with one quirk at the time.

[1] https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-terraform-bridge