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I agree with you on Terraform and Pulumi (I'm especially excited about the latter, due to extra benefits over Terraform). However, I think that you are missing the main point / theme of the post - it is not specifically about AWS' approach to multi-cloud, but rather about general dynamics of the multi-cloud trend.

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Check out Terraform CDK for a thing that is native to TF, allows real code, and is progressing real fast

Thank you, will keep it in mind. However, Terraform CDK is far from being production-ready at the present time. Moreover, I would venture to guess that it will trail Pulumi in terms of both features and maturity (due to Pulumi team's first mover advantage as well as singular focus on their product, unlike HashiCorp's broad portfolio of products).

I’m a bit confused here. Isn’t Pulumis big claim that it’s compatible with Terraform providers?? Why would Terraform trail that?

Yes, Pulumi is compatible with Terraform providers. However, it is a declarative backend compatibility. In terms of imperative frontend, as I said, Pulumi team has both first mover advantage as well as singular focus on their product, unlike HashiCorp with its broad portfolio of products, where Terraform CDK is just one of them (hence, lack of the laser focus).

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