Do not use AWS CloudFormation

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AWS CloudFormation Landing Page
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AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a...
Pricing:
- Open Source
CloudFormation being a layer of indirection makes it difficult to work with in multi-region/multi-account scenarios. With CloudFormation you have to create Stack Sets and IAM policies that allow the CloudFormation service to impersonate other roles. The prerequisite steps you have to take to use CloudFormation across multiple accounts also must be taken just to have CloudFormation spin up resources in multiple regions within the same account.

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Terraform Landing Page
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Terraform

Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Terraform, on the other hand, will occupy your shell until the directly-involved AWS service coughs up an error. No additional tooling is required. Terraform will just relay the error message from the affected service indicating what you’ve done wrong.

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Google Cloud Platform Landing Page

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Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud provides flexible infrastructure, end-to-security, modern productivity, and intelligent insights engineered to help your business thrive.

The list of quotas for the AWS CloudFormation service is just hilarious. Meanwhile (for good or ill) I’ve had no problem spinning up over 1,000 resources with Google Cloud Platform from a single Terraform state.

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