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In addition to what others have said, it is important to point out that the CDK is AWS specific. Your "infrastructure" is rarely just "AWS" even if you're not multi-cloud. Terraform and Pulumi can operate on things outside of AWS like Github, Okta, Cloudflare, Datadog, Hashicorp Vault, etc.

It is nice to have one system or even repo for managing all of that.

https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/cloud_template_transpil...

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> In addition to what others have said, it is important to point out that the CDK is AWS specific.

As mentioned in other comments here, CDK for Terraform is another option and it's not AWS specific - it should work with any Terraform provider and there are heaps available.

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

Oh interesting (and kind of weird). I didn't know this was an option. Though it does say this at the top:

> This experimental repository contains software which is still being developed and in the alpha testing stage. It is not ready for production use.

It also seems to make using modules awkward or impossible, making non trivial use of the terraform cdk impractical.

Interesting. I used the Terraform CDK to deploy Typhoon from a module on terraform registry without an issue.

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