What do you like best about the product?

* Pulumi enables us to define our AWS cloud resources through IaC components which is versioned along with our application code.

* For our infrastructure testing requirements, it provides seamless testing, modularization and CI/CD integrations for our deployments.

* Since Pulumi keeps the metadata of our infrastructure, its easy to manage our cloud resources & we make use of its CLI to create/update/delete the stack state.

* There are no security concerns while running commands through its CLI, Pulumi doesn't store any of our cloud credentials. All configurations & secrets are encrypted by our encryption provider.

What do you dislike about the product?

* We didn't face any inconvenience while using Pulumi as its an open-source IaC platform best suited for our AWS deployments.

* We can easily validate our applications & infrastructure through any native testing frameworks.

* Pulumi Packages promotes reusability of our IaC scripts which saves us a lot of time. Each component is production-ready so we don't have to spend much time on configurations.

* Overall, we are satisfied with the services offered by Pulumi for our cloud infrastructure modularization & deployments.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

* We handle our CI/CD integrations, secret management & resource deployments through Pulumi Cloud platform.

* It offers more flexibility to configure our infrastructure for deployments & the event-based triggers which will update our stacks periodically.

* We utilize its built-in dynamic resource providers to incorporate arbitrary code straight into our Amazon RDS cluster deployment process.

* Further, we can seamlessly integrate various monitoring & observability tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana and Prometheus to gain accurate insights, carry out periodic health checks and keep track of performance & utilization of our cloud resources.