Yeah, I'm a long term cloudformation user and so frustrated with it's many shortcomings, the workarounds you need to make, and the hold on to your seat moment w

Yeah, I'm a long term cloudformation user and so frustrated with it's many shortcomings, the workarounds you need to make, and the hold on to your seat moment when you apply your changes... It took me a while to get used to terraform, figure out the design patterns, and use all of the features properly, but its insanely powerful, and a really solid product. Yeah, you can store the state in S3, or pay the $20 a month for atlas... Its really worth it. You can reference stored states in your terraform modules, so for example you can have a module that creates IAM users, groups, shared s3 buckets etc for your account, then you can reference to resources in it from other modules with separate state, for example environments. Give it a go and try it out for a while, you wont go back.