hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The official Terraform provider plugin for Amazon Web Services, written in Go and maintained by HashiCorp. It enables Terraform to define, provision, and manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS, and IAM through declarative configuration files.

Use cases

• provision aws infrastructure with terraform
• manage ec2 instances and s3 buckets as code
• automate cloud resource deployment
• define vpc and networking resources declaratively
• version control aws infrastructure changes
• create reproducible aws environments for teams

When to choose

• you use Terraform and need to manage AWS resources
• you want declarative, version-controlled infrastructure for AWS
• you need to provision or update AWS services across accounts and regions
• you want to codify AWS infrastructure for repeatability and drift detection

When to avoid

• you manage AWS exclusively through the console or AWS CLI
• you use a different IaC tool like Pulumi, CloudFormation, or CDK
• you need to manage non-AWS cloud resources
• you want imperative scripting rather than declarative configuration

Facets

plugin · maturity stable

infrastructure-as-code cloud deployment configuration-management developer-tools infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing go cloud cross-platform cli terraform-provider aws hashicorp iac cloud-provisioning declarative-infrastructure resource-management devops automation terraform

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