Comparison with Other Popular IaC Models

As more and more companies start to switch to the cloud, they pay a lot of attention to avoiding vendor lock-in. We need to be aware of our company’s current and possible future direction before selecting a service to automate the infrastructure provisioning. If our company’s public cloud strategy is to use only AWS, then utilizing AWS CloudFormation to provision the infrastructure is a no-brainer because it's an AWS-managed service that uses templates written in JSON and YAML format to provision services. Let’s explore other alternate services and their use cases.