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The book is a pretty easy-to-follow intro on cloudformation and terraform, cdk, pulumi, sceptre, Troposphere. Although it is a bit verbose sometimes, but the examples are easy to follow. It is what i am looking for at the moment

Chapter 5 is a good read on sceptre and Troposphere, love to try Troposphere out, can also think of situation in which sceptre is usually, it is quite possible to marry the two with some python boilerplate code to get the benefits from both frameworks.

Chapter 4 is quite enlightening in its way of describing TerraForm, although a bit verbose, its description about TerraForm features such as module, local, tfvar, var-file, provider, variable, remote states are all very attractive to me from devops point

Chapter 3 is quite good for intro to CFN but can be written more concise as it is centered around only a few concepts

Chapter 2 has some intro to several aws devops frameworks and compares the pros and cons, will be great to have a compare table for this chapter (e.g. which camps use what languages and which parent-level technologies, such as cloudformation (topostrophe, CDK, spetre) and terraform (Pulumi). but in general good intro

The first chapter introduces some basic shell scripts for aws cli on managing ec instances and cloudfront, good intro on the complexity of cloud dev-ops