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Terraform

2026


It's All Just AWS Under the Hood

·8 mins LLM Drafted Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic)
Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, Heroku, Render, PlanetScale: open their region docs and you find AWS region codes. The platforms are thin layers over primitives you can learn directly. Deep AWS specialization — with real fluency in CDK and Terraform — is not narrowing. It is the thing that lets you use any of them, and leave any of them.

Vercel Is Great for Frontend Teams

·8 mins LLM Drafted Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic)
Vercel’s developer experience is the best in the business, and for a frontend team without cloud depth it is the right call. But if your organization already has AWS CDK or Terraform specialization, you are paying a markup on Lambda and CloudFront for an abstraction you do not need, with spend controls that lag, private networking behind an Enterprise contract, and a self-hosting story that has finally caught up.