[nerdjon]

Most of these sure.

Workmail is a weird choice, I mean its just fine as an email system so why cut it? Plus migrating email hosts is kinda a pain. I use it for my personal/professional email and, I never interact with Workmail directly since its on my phone.

Lightsail, it sounds like the primary reason is that it won't make money on its own but I figured that was never it's purpose. It always seemed like Lightsail existed to get people into AWS for smaller projects.

Cloudformation I strongly disagree with. I use it for all infrastructure and having used terraform in the past I much prefer it. My only real problem with CF is that it is not required that all new features are part of CF when they launch. That fixes CF but doesn't need a replacement to make it work. Throw in some UI improvements, but no reason to throw it out.

[moribvndvs]

I don’t claim that CF is a brilliant product but over the years I’ve come to appreciate that for typical workloads I can get it done with virtually no extra cost and without third party components and configuration. I’ve been trying out CDK and honestly I think it’s an iterative improvement that CF sorely needed.