Cloudformation works but is bit of a hog: it moves slowly and sometimes if it breaks down the only recourse is to delete all stacks and try again. Customers ar

Cloudformation works but is bit of a hog: it moves slowly and sometimes if it breaks down the only recourse is to delete all stacks and try again. Customers are often alpha-testers of new products without it being clearly specified that the products are alpha quality. Then again, everyone in the industry does something like this, but the contrast between some rock solid AWS services and some others is quite stark. And it's expensive. But other than the alpha products, generally it works very well and is highly reliable.