Day 25: CloudFormation (AWS) - Overview and comparison
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After four days on Terraform, today I compared it with AWS CloudFormation and surveyed the other IaC options. The short version from my reading: CloudFormation is AWS-only and uses YAML/JSON templates, while Terraform is cloud-agnostic with HCL — worth knowing both, since the trade-off comes up in interviews and on real teams.
Some articles which shed light on CloudFormation vs Terraform:
- Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation : The Ultimate Comparison
- Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation : The Ultimate Comparison
Other Terraform alternatives worth knowing:
- Pulumi is another alternative to Terraform.
- Azure Resource Manager specializes in Azure solutions.
- Google Cloud Deployment Manager specializes in GCP solutions.