Question

A finance team complains that cloud spending is unpredictable because operations engineers provision resources ad hoc through cloud consoles, and no one can forecast costs before changes are applied. The engineering lead wants to adopt Infrastructure as Code specifically to help address this concern. Beyond the raw cost tooling, which inherent characteristic of a declarative IaC workflow BEST helps the team review the exact set of resource changes before they are provisioned?

Accepted Answer

IaC produces a reviewable plan of the desired end state and the precise resource changes required to reach it before anything is applied

Answer

IaC automatically negotiates lower pricing with cloud providers when resources are declared in configuration files

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IaC eliminates the need for any human approval because changes are applied continuously and instantly

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IaC forces all resources to be deployed in a single region to minimize data transfer charges