S3
Remote state management and concurrent write conflicts at scale
9When multiple team members and CI/CD pipelines run Terraform in parallel, concurrent writes to shared state can cause conflicting updates and painful recovery work. The terraform.tfstate file serves as the source of truth, and unreliable storage or simultaneous modifications lead to state corruption.
Local state files without remote backends cause team collaboration and disaster recovery issues
8State files stored locally (default) instead of on remote backends (S3, GCS) prevent team collaboration, create single points of failure, and make disaster recovery impossible. Developers must manually manage state file access.
Fragmented console experience across multiple services
5Deploying an app requires managing resources scattered across different AWS console sections (S3, CloudFront, Route 53, EC2/Fargate/Lambda+API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB, billing alarms). These services don't integrate well out-of-the-box, forcing context switching and manual coordination.