With all due respect, this doesn't seem like the best advice. Part of the appeal of Hashicorp tools (terraform, and also vagrant and others) is that they are p

With all due respect, this doesn't seem like the best advice. Part of the appeal of Hashicorp tools (terraform, and also vagrant and others) is that they are platform-agnostic. The tagline even says "ONE SAFE WORKFLOW ACROSS PROVIDERS". Check out terraform.io to see what they say. I wouldn't limit it to AWS, and AWS isn't even always the best option. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯