Stelvio
Shares rank 6 of 10 IaC tools by recommenders
Recommended for deploying Python apps to AWS with less infrastructure code, automatic IAM permissions and a live dev mode. Critics say it is non-standard and may miss some AWS APIs.
Recommended for deploying Python apps to AWS with less infrastructure code, automatic IAM permissions and a live dev mode. Critics say it is non-standard and may miss some AWS APIs.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 62%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Much less infrastructure code
“Whole point of Stelvio is that you need to write much less code to define your infra”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” “We're providing higher level components for easier IaC code and automate permission generation between those resources.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS” Automatic IAM permissions and best practices
“almost no worry about IAM, best practices out of the box and developers workflow in mind”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS” “We're providing higher level components for easier IaC code and automate permission generation between those resources.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS” Quick to start and deploy
“Stelvio was born out of my frustraction with CDK, I was doing lot of things again and again, waiting long for deployments”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” “It lets you get started in minutes without dealing with unnecessary details.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” Python-focused infrastructure code
“aims to really nail down experience for deploying Python to AWS”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS” “love the approach of a more "pythonic" infra as code”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Overlaps with official CDK
“There is no reason to introduce this into a company instead of using the official CDK.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” “I don't understand why I would use this over aws CDK in python.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” “As does both SAM and the CDK.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” Non-standard, dependent on third-party package
“using a non industry standard framework (Stevio) just doesn’t make any sense”
Comment from 4 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” “I would never depend on a third party IAC package aside from Terraform”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” May not cover all AWS services
“there is a resource you need out of the 150+ AWS services that they don’t support”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” “It's unlikely to cover the AWS API's with 100% certainty”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” Doubts about long-term maintenance
“And what assurances are there that you will be around for five years?”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS” “how kind will it take him to add new functionality?”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS”
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See all 10 IaC tools, rankedWhat people said
29 of the 30 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“using a non industry standard framework (Stevio) just doesn’t make any sense”
“Stelvio was born out of my frustraction with CDK, I was doing lot of things again and again, waiting long for deployments”
“how kind will it take him to add new functionality?”
“I don't understand why I would use this over aws CDK in python.”
“This is exactly what we had in mind as a first principle”
“convert code into unnecessary config”
“Stelvio will then look at python version and target architecture of your lambda and will use uv or pip to get right version of the packages”
“It lets you get started in minutes without dealing with unnecessary details.”
“there is a resource you need out of the 150+ AWS services that they don’t support”
“And what assurances are there that you will be around for five years?”
“Seems great for really small apps where you want your resource definitions colocated with the code using them.”
“Stelvio just tries to be even better and focused on developers.”
“I would never depend on a third party IAC package aside from Terraform”
“We believe that we're creating a solution for problems that we fought with”
“As does both SAM and the CDK.”
“This is a solution looking for a problem.”
“We still believe to have a more flexible solution that also adds some features, including combining multiple cloud providers”
“There is no reason to introduce this into a company instead of using the official CDK.”
“that alone adds a lot of productivity gains for teams”
“you can stick with Stelvio's sensible defaults if you wish”
“Whole point of Stelvio is that you need to write much less code to define your infra”
“It's unlikely to cover the AWS API's with 100% certainty”
“The "dev mode" where you can change lambda code live is the killer feature here.”
“The first 2 links in the readme are 404s”
“aims to really nail down experience for deploying Python to AWS”
“love the approach of a more "pythonic" infra as code”
“almost no worry about IAM, best practices out of the box and developers workflow in mind”
“We're providing higher level components for easier IaC code and automate permission generation between those resources.”
“Looks cool at first glance!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.