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coredog64 9 hours ago

If you use the AWS console, it's a tick box to include this.

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MrDarcy 8 hours ago | parent [-]

No professional engineer uses the AWS console to provision foundational resources like VPC networks.

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wulfstan 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, this. You lock it into Terraform or some equivalent.

And ok, this is a mistake you will probably only make once - I know, because I too have made it on a much smaller scale, and thankfully in a cost-insensitive customer's account - but surely if you're an infrastructure provider you want to try to ensure that you are vigilantly removing footguns.

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kikimora 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Especially true now with Claude generating decent terraform code. I was shocked how good it is at knowing AWS gotchas. It also debug connectivity issues almost automagically. While I hate how it writes code I love how it writes terraform.

	▲	shepherdjerred 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AI is surprising good at boilerplate IaC stuff. It’s a great argument for configuration as code, or really just being able to represent things in plain text formats