I agree with this sentiment entirely. To add to that; if you're dealing with multiple cloud providers it's a lot nicer to push a standard configuration, say ne

I agree with this sentiment entirely. To add to that; if you're dealing with multiple cloud providers it's a lot nicer to push a standard configuration, say networking, into a type system. Then you implement interfaces that accept that configuration and handle the provider specific bits. That way the day-to-day tweaking of the config is the same, regardless of provider.