CDK is just a different way of writing cloudformation essentially, its code that is transformed into cloudformation templates, so inherits all its problems. Pu

CDK is just a different way of writing cloudformation essentially, its code that is transformed into cloudformation templates, so inherits all its problems. Pulumi is more like Terraform but without HCL. So imagine instead of having to find-the-HCL-way-to-do-things and work within those constraints to make terraform work, you can use one of a few languages to build up resources (similar to you would in HCL) and have pulumi provision/act on them for you including managing their state. Quite different to CDK/CloudFormation and much more like Terraform without the handcuffs of HCL. (sometimes handcuffs are useful tho..)