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We had to move to Pulumi from CDK. CDK's reliance on Cloudformation makes it unusable because CF is not a production ready service - it is extremely slow and its failure modes are absurd.

Pulumi does less "magic" than CDK, though they're working on higher level constructs, but ultimately it's just the better technology.

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> CF is not a production ready service

This is an absurd and simply untrue statement. Many teams at Amazon deploy their production AWS infrastructure with CF.

Well, I disagree. I've seen CF get into bad states that can't be recovered without support going in. It shouldn't be controversial to say that it's much slower than alternatives as well.

The difference is that AWS support can recover them and will help you. In that way it is a service not a tool. They are also the support team for the services that are being provisioned/managed so it is "one throat to choke".

On the contrary, I have seen many many destructive terraform applies that really messed everything up - without a helpful support team to call (unless you are paying Hashicorp) that can just get you out of the jam.

Yes it is a bit slower and often you need to wait for it to rollback when something goes wrong - but 9 times out of 10 that rollback succeeds. I'll take that trade-off...

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