Terraform

Terraform vs CloudFormation: which is better for infrastructure as code?

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Answer:

Terraform is chosen over AWS CloudFormation because it is cloud-agnostic, supports AWS and other providers in a single framework, uses the readable, modular HCL language, provides robust state management with drift prevention, and offers access to reusable community modules for extensible, scalable infrastructure.

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