I am a daily user of both CloudFormation and Terraform and one feature that I miss in CloudFormation is the ability to look up some data dynamically and reuse it in my template. In this article, I present CloudFormation data source, a generic custom resource to retrieve values at deployment time...
Recently, I wanted to find a cost-effective solution to archive my pictures. I was using a NAS at home but it can fail at any time, so it was not a good long term solution. Being an AWS consultant, I naturally thought of using Amazon S3 to provide the durability needed...
