In our experience, establishing resources on AWS or any major cloud provider is a demanding and less favored undertaking. To effectively navigate this complex terrain, it is imperative for business organizations to empower their IT Operations team to adopt a mindset centered around automation. This approach enables us to allocate more of our valuable time to activities that prioritize delivering tangible value.
As most of us are aware, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) revolutionizes the process of infrastructure creation, management, and provisioning. Gone are the days of manual input through web-based user interfaces. One standout champion in the realm of engineering toolsets is Terraform, utilizing the HashiCorp Language.
Allow me to pose a question: What is your estimate for the amount of time it would have consumed to manually configure the 41 AWS resources required for the creation of this EKS Cluster?