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CloudFormation is a declarative state management language and framework just like Terraform. The problem is that CF abstracts said state away from you to the de
by devonkim 7y ago
CloudFormation is a declarative state management language and framework just like Terraform. The problem is that CF abstracts said state away from you to the degree that you can't hack around it and you wind up forcibly deleting resources if you try to use it like a configuration management framework. With CF Custom Resources you can add all sorts of other stuff and that's pretty cool at least.