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Cloud API rate limits and eventual consistency issues during large applies
7/10 HighLarge Terraform applies trigger API throttling (429 errors) when hitting per-account or per-region cloud provider limits. Additionally, eventually-consistent cloud services may not reflect changes immediately, causing subsequent API calls to fail or return stale data.
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Query: “What are the most common pain points with Terraform for developers in 2025?”3/29/2026
Big applies can hit API throttling (429s / 'Rate exceeded') because Terraform is doing lots of create, read, and update calls at once — and most providers enforce per-account or per-region limits. Furthermore, many services are eventually consistent: The API accepts a change, but other endpoints won't 'see' it for seconds or minutes.
Created: 3/29/2026Updated: 3/29/2026