Why Not Just Use CloudFormation?
Explore why Terraform is often favored over AWS CloudFormation. Understand how Terraform’s open-source nature, readable HCL syntax, faster feature updates, and multi-cloud support make infrastructure management easier and more versatile in your projects.
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Terraform vs. CloudFormation
As this course is going to use AWS for its examples, it seems prudent to address the question: Why use Terraform over CloudFormation? Since CloudFormation is an infrastructure-as-code tool that is doing the same job as Terraform and was written by Amazon themselves, isn’t it better? Well, not exactly. There are several reasons why Terraform is a better choice than CloudFormation for your project.
Faster Terraform
Terraform is open source and generally moves faster than CloudFormation. Even though Amazon produces CloudFormation, it can still ...