Has anyone tried Terraform before? https://medium.com/mlearning-ai/terraform-and-azure-devops-to-provision-aws-resource-ee03c032c6d6

yeah used it for years prior to moving to cdk

yeah, we’ve got quite a bit set up with terraform

I used it before discovering CDK. The benefit is fast deployment compared with CloudFormation. The disadvantage is HCL being dreadful (there is CDKTF in preview) and having to roll-your-own state management.

Adding to this. Terraform is more declarative, meaning you get exactly what you ask for, provisioned for you by the aws-sdk for golang (mostly). Terraform in my experience is better for very large organisations that need a unified deployment e.g. if you are running multi-account with SSO. Cdktf is not great unfortunately, it doesn't get the rich intellisense that aws-cdk benefits from, it mostly just knows the shape of the struct, and the string values. They are working on an adapter to work cdktf into aws-cdk. Hopefully that would mean cdk level type hints, with Terraform grade deploy speed.

Terraform is so much faster 😢