Lines of code is irrelevant when you are in the middle of a production deploy and you just want the highest visibility into what is going on. In cloudformation,

Lines of code is irrelevant when you are in the middle of a production deploy and you just want the highest visibility into what is going on. In cloudformation, there are only two possible places for resource state: 1) The actual resource state in AWS and 2) The desired state stored in CloudFormation.