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State refactoring and cross-boundary resource moves lack tooling support

7/10 High

Moving resources between state files or across state boundaries is not supported by terraform mv or other built-in tools. Teams must manually edit JSON state files or write custom tooling to reorganize infrastructure across projects or environments.

Terraformstate
Category
dx
Workaround
hack
Stage
migration
Freshness
persistent
Scope
framework
Upstream
wontfix
Recurring
No
Buyer Type
team

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Query: “What are the most common pain points with Terraform for developers in 2025?”3/29/2026

state mv can't do it). Moving across state boundaries is harder still. While the documentation mentions moving to a different state file, there's no support for hooking it up to an already-existing state in S3.

Created: 3/29/2026Updated: 3/29/2026