[Illotus]

> Other than the fact it seems to be an industry standard so it's good for your job prospects, what are the benefits to Terraform over CloudFormation/CDK or whatever the equivalent is for your particular cloud provider?

For me the killer feature is that both plan and apply show the actual diff of changes vs running infrastructure. It makes understanding effects of changes much easier.

[Bellyache5]

Agreed, Terraform does a good job of this. But CloudFormation & CDK can also do this via Change Sets and CDK diff.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

https://blog.mikaeels.com/what-does-the-aws-cdk-diff-command...