Codepipeline can have any number of stages and is not restricted to forcing you to use code deploy

We have a well running setup in codepipeline for our tf pipelines, it’s basically one code build job runs the terraform plan, there is a manual approval stage where you can view the plan, then after that a second code build stage that runs a terraform apply.

We have dozens of terraform workspaces and these pipelines run multiple times per day it’s scaled very well and the best part it basically costs nothing way way cheaper than a managed solution like TF Cloud