Terraform is open source and generally moves faster than CloudFormation. Even though Amazon produces CloudFormation, it can still take a while for a new AWS feature to appear, whereas the Terraform community is amazing at keeping the program up to date. This is aided by the fact that each Terraform provider (think of that as a plugin to manage a certain vendor or component) is a separate binary that gets deployed at its own speed (we will cover providers in detail later in the course).