Lot of issues with slow AWS provision or missing APIs on AWS side so it would take hours to delete resources created by them.
and then there's also flynn.
I really hate marketing speak like this. Terraform is there specifically to solve the Aws infrastructure complexity.you create your system once and minor changes if needed.
> Flightcontrol fully automates infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, and deployments. All within your own AWS account where you retain full visibility and control
Why does everyone think this is a desirable thing? Excluding adding to your aws price, you're now vendor locked in for your pipelines also.
I'm not seeing any benefits here for any already established company, maybe a small start-up of fresh graduates who don't want to learn Iac/DevOps ?
I don't know if anyone here remembers the Ant build system, but writing your own Terraform spaghetti strongly resembles the days of Ant, before Maven came along. Teams over-engineering their build pipeline, building "platforms" that other teams must use, an unmaintainable and untestable mess. Time better spent elsewhere.
Disclaimer I'm an SRE/sysops and went through a bunch of those projects where sometimes entire department see (often shadow) IT from contractors as the only solution moving forward.
They introduced a cheaper plan since I tried it, but it's missing the main feature that I actually think makes FC worth it (preview environments)
I know not everyone wants to get in on the Vercel Cartel model of excessive free-tier generosity made up for by 1000% markups at scale... but $400/month is tough to swallow when you barely need $50/month of compute to handle your production workload.
crazycheesu•1h ago
vends•37m ago
Seems closer to Heroku/Vercel but running in your own AWS account.