I agree CF kinda blows compared to real programming lang, and is probably legitimately better as an intermediate generated template than hand crafted code. Eve

I agree CF kinda blows compared to real programming lang, and is probably legitimately better as an intermediate generated template than hand crafted code. Even AWS has come up with a CDK to avoid building CF and use real prog langs. I've never used it though. I just personally think that if youre going to be a part of an ecosystem, things go much more smoothly when you stay in that ecosystem as much as possible. Also Amazon is a massive company compared to hashicorp so I feel more comfortable about my infrastructures longevity with AWS tools. Not saying hashicorp is going anywhere anytime soon and if it did the open-source community would probably take over, but it eliminates that tiny tiny risk. I would probably use the AWS-CDK now instead of CF.