there's no exporting. You write everything in there format to define your infras...

SlowRobotAhead · on May 23, 2019

That makes sense.

Now, other than the portability of AWS to Azure to GCP, why do I want this?

Because with CloudFormation I can pull down and put up my “stacks” in layers and this isn’t necessarily the same as API calls (although on the backend maybe it is).

pseudalopex · on May 23, 2019

Terraform can manage much more than AWS, Azure, and GCP.[1]

[1] https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/