[kolev]

Just recalled another big annoyance! CloudFormation allows you to store JSON files in the user data, which is a bit similar to CloudInit, but... it turns your numbers into strings! So, imagine you need to put some JSON config file in there and the software expect an integer and craps out if there's a string value instead. I won't even bring how limited and behind the API CloudFormation is... Even their AWS CLI is behind and doesn't support major services like CloudFront. They even removed the nice landing page of the CLI took, which made it very obvious which services are NOT supported - I guess they just got embarrassed by having so many unsupported ones!