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Of course you can implement/set up syncing of state on your own, but that's something you don't have to worry about when using CloudFormation. I'm not sure how the options for Terraform handle race conditions when trying to deploy updates in parallel, but again, something you don't have to worry about with CloudFormation.

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This "implementing/setting up syncing of state" requires only a few lines of Terraform config.

Lines of code is irrelevant when you are in the middle of a production deploy and you just want the highest visibility into what is going on. In cloudformation, there are only two possible places for resource state: 1) The actual resource state in AWS and 2) The desired state stored in CloudFormation.

no, you and your team have to worry about not making a change that could render your whole stack useless

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