Crossplane vs Upbound CRDS

[Dominik Wosiński]

Hey,
I've started using Crossplane Providers for AWS, but I can see that there are two repos for `provider-aws` https://github.com/crossplane-contrib/provider-aws and https://github.com/upbound/provider-aws. Both of them seem to be actively developed but both of them have different CRDS. The documentation is using provider by upbound, but I wanted to ask what's the difference between the two and which one should we use in general?

Cheers,

Dom.

[Jean du Plessis]

Hey Dominik

You might want to look at this blog post that details the Upbound providers: https://blog.upbound.io/first-official-providers/ 

Thanks

Jean du Plessis

Engineering Manager | Upbound.io

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[Dominik Wosiński]

Hey,
Thanks for answering. The post explains some things, but doesn't talk much about why are the `classic` providers necessary at all if the `official` ones are more developed and stable. Are there any benefits of using `classic` over `official` providers?

Cheers,

Dom.

[Jean du Plessis]

The crossplane-contrib/provider-aws provider is written as a native implementation that doesn't rely on Terraform under the hood. The upbound/provider-aws provider has higher CPU/memory utilization needs compared crossplane-contrib/provider-aws. If all the resources you need are available in crossplane-contrib/provider-aws then you should consider starting there. 

Thanks

Jean du Plessis

Engineering Manager | Upbound.io

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[Dominik Wosiński]

Thanks! That was very helpful.

Best Regards,

Dom.