Evaluate crossplane-contrib vs Upbound official AWS provider

[hamza-mohd]

Two options for the AWS provider:

1. crossplane-contrib/provider-aws - community, mature, good docs
2. upbound/provider-aws - official, generated from AWS TF provider, newer family model

Key tradeoff: Upbound family model means installing only the services you need, but migration story from contrib is unclear.

My recommendation: Start with crossplane-contrib/provider-aws v0.43+. Revisit Upbound official at 6 months once their family model stabilizes.

Thoughts?

[sarajkrishnasingh]

Agree. The Upbound family model is actually a long-term win (smaller footprint) but the migration path right now is manual and underdocumented. Starting with contrib is lower risk.

[arjunmehta-git]

Decision: crossplane-contrib/provider-aws v0.43+ for now. @hamza-mohd please write this up as an architecture decision record in tcs-cloud-foundations/docs/decisions/.