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Terraform does everything CloudFormation does but in a simpler way where you have more control over what's happening.


Cloudformation has better atomicity guarantees though. It's not perfect but in general if a change to a stack fails it will get rolled back to a known good state. Terraform doesn't give you the same guarantee. You'll have to push a rollback or fix yourself leaving your AWS resources in a potentially broken state while you do.




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