[icedchai]

You're going to waste more time setting things up by hand. It's also error prone, and when you have to replicate things across environments (dev, test, prod, at a minimum), you'll spend a ton of time figuring out what you missed.

The console is really only meant for prototyping. AWS should really emphasize this more.

[VincentEvans]

How does one convert a prototype generated by clicking around in the console - into terraform code? Is there a best practice approach?

[Hikikomori]

Terraform 1.5 got a new import feature.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-1-5-brings-config-d...

[vgeek]

Check out Former2.