I found both CloudFormation and Terraform's AWS provider to be too verbose for quickly spinning up a lot of infrastructure as a startup. So I ended up creating

I found both CloudFormation and Terraform's AWS provider to be too verbose for quickly spinning up a lot of infrastructure as a startup. So I ended up creating https://provose.com/ https://provose.com/ own high-level wrapper for Terraform's AWS provider. I can happily spin up VPCs with AWS ECS containers, RDS databases, EFS and FSx Lustre filesystems, and more. I really believe in the Terraform ecosystem, but I do have to admit that it is hard to write a Terraform module or provider that provides a significant level of abstraction over low-level cloud provider APIs. I've seen this issue drive a lot of other people to Pulumi or the AWS CDK, but I think Terraform is a better product specifically because Terraform HCL is not a (trivially) Turing-complete programming language.