I'm fairly new to both, and I initially setup some infrastructure with CloudFormation. I found it difficult to use and the JSON impossible to write by hand. You

I'm fairly new to both, and I initially setup some infrastructure with CloudFormation. I found it difficult to use and the JSON impossible to write by hand. You need to use a tool like their online editor to generate it - at least initially. It was also tough to extract identifiers to variables that can be changed outside the templates. I'm using Terraform now, and I like it much better. It has its own language for defining resources, but I find it very readable and easy to write by hand. My goal is to have my "infrastructure as code" so it can be tested in a sandbox and changes can be reviewed as pull requests. Going forward Terraform is my choice.