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In an impressive display of its value in infrastructure management, the HashiCorp Terraform AWS Provider has surpassed two billion downloads. This significant achievement not only highlights the increasing reliance on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) but also showcases the essential role Terraform plays in shaping the future of cloud and on-premises resource management.
HashiCorp Terraform serves as a powerful IaC tool that enables users to define their infrastructure through human-readable configuration files. These files can be versioned, reused, and shared, allowing for a streamlined workflow in managing resources throughout their lifecycle. From low-level components such as compute and storage to high-level features like DNS entries and SaaS offerings, Terraform effectively manages a wide range of resources through APIs known as providers.
Today, we celebrate the milestone of two billion downloads of the Terraform AWS Provider, which developers utilize to interact with numerous AWS resources. This achievement reflects the collaborative efforts of AWS builders and emphasizes the growing demand for standardized IaC solutions as organizations scale their operations. With multiple editions available—including community, enterprise, and cloud (TFC)—HashiCorp Terraform empowers application teams to create, reuse, and collaborate on infrastructure provisioning efficiently, leading to faster build and deployment processes.
The Terraform community’s adoption of IaC has led many large enterprises to discover its potential for enhancing infrastructure automation. As a result, Terraform has established itself as one of the most widely adopted tools in this domain, boasting thousands of commercial customers, over 3,000 Terraform providers, and a comprehensive library of 12,000 modules.
Before the introduction of Terraform Enterprise, many cloud operations processes were manual, requiring teams to test plans, troubleshoot issues, and authenticate with AWS for remote state access—all through labor-intensive command-line interfaces. Terraform Enterprise revolutionized this approach by automating these repetitive tasks. “With Terraform Enterprise, I just click the button, and it does all the legwork for me,” shares Sarah Johnson, Engineering Manager at CloudOps Solutions. Now, her team can write Terraform configurations with minimal code, provision workspaces in mere minutes, and maintain visibility into their source code. This transformation has accelerated their provisioning processes by five times, resulting in a remarkable 400 percent increase in efficiency.
Since its launch in 2014, HashiCorp has consistently provided support for AWS resources. The collaboration between AWS and HashiCorp includes several initiatives such as the AWS Cloud Control Provider, which utilizes the AWS Cloud Control API to expedite the integration of new services into Terraform. In technical preview, this provider supports hundreds of AWS resources, with more being added as AWS services adopt the Cloud Control API standard.
Additionally, HashiCorp and AWS have introduced AWS Service Catalog support for Terraform Cloud, linking Service Catalog product provisioning with Terraform’s advanced governance and visibility features. Furthermore, the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF) allows users to write Terraform configurations in preferred programming languages like C#, Python, TypeScript, Java, or Go, facilitating a seamless integration of IaC into existing workflows.
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