Terraform as “infrastructure as code” seems to be very capable and have a very similar concept that of AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK.
what’s more interesting is you can build all the AWS services through this!
Overview –Provision AWS infrastructure using Terraform (By HashiCorp) blog
Many web and mobile applications can make use of AWS services and infrastructure to log or ingest data from customer actions and behaviors on the websites or mobile apps, to provide recommendations for better user experience. There are several ‘infrastructure as code’ frameworks available today, to help customers define their infrastructure, such as the AWS CDK or Terraform by HashiCorp. In this blog, we will walk you through a use case of logging customer behavior data on web-application and will use Terraform to model the AWS infrastructure.
The data ingestion process is exposed with an API Gateway endpoint. The Amazon API Gateway processes the incoming data into an AWS Lambda during which the system validates the request using a Lambda Authorizer and pushes the data to a Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The solution leverages Firehose’s capability to convert the incoming data into a Parquet file (an open source file format for Hadoop) before pushing it to Amazon S3 using AWS Glue catalog. Additionally, a transformational/consumer lambda does additional processing by pushing it to Amazon DynamoDB.
