Seems great for really small apps where you want your resource definitions colocated with the code using them. I'd imagine the benefits start to break down as your infrastructure gets more complicated.

The bigger answer is that if you're proficient and happy with CDK or anything else to wire resource up, you're probably not going to see much (if any) benefit.

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raw_anon_1111 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Until there is a resource you need out of the 150+ AWS services that they don’t support or a new feature of an existing resource….

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s5fs 5 hours ago | parent [-]

To be fair, AWS service teams don't always expose all features/options through cloudformation and you end up having to hit the API to manage them.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		True, I have written my share of CloudFormation custom resources. Funny anecdote: it was faster for an SA when i was at AWS to create a Terraform module and have it merged into Terraform than it was for us to wait for AWS to add support for the same resource in CloudFormation. They are getting much better now