Counterpoint... Use CloudFormation!
Managed services offer big benefits over software. With CF, new stacks, change sets, updates, rollbacks and drift detection are an API call away.
Managed service providers offer big benefits over software. With CF and AWS support, help with problems are a support ticket away.
Using a single cloud provider has a big benefit over a multi-cloud tooling. I only run workloads on AWS, so the CF syntax, specs and docs unlocks endless first party features. A portable Terraform + Kubernetes contraption is a lowest common denominator approach.
Of course everything depends.
I've configured literally 1000s of systems with CloudFormation with very few problems.
I have seen Terraform turn into a tire-fire of migrations from state files to Terraform enterprise to Atlantis that took an entire DevOps team to care for.
Managed services offer big benefits over software. With CF, new stacks, change sets, updates, rollbacks and drift detection are an API call away.
Managed service providers offer big benefits over software. With CF and AWS support, help with problems are a support ticket away.
Using a single cloud provider has a big benefit over a multi-cloud tooling. I only run workloads on AWS, so the CF syntax, specs and docs unlocks endless first party features. A portable Terraform + Kubernetes contraption is a lowest common denominator approach.
Of course everything depends.
I've configured literally 1000s of systems with CloudFormation with very few problems.
I have seen Terraform turn into a tire-fire of migrations from state files to Terraform enterprise to Atlantis that took an entire DevOps team to care for.