Question

Your company runs production workloads on AWS but is acquiring a startup whose systems run entirely on Google Cloud. Leadership wants a single team to manage both environments using one consistent tooling and workflow, while avoiding being locked into vendor-specific provisioning tools like AWS CloudFormation. Which characteristic of Terraform best addresses this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Terraform is provider-agnostic and can manage resources across multiple cloud platforms using the same configuration language and workflow.

Answer

Terraform automatically migrates existing CloudFormation stacks into Google Cloud without any reconfiguration.

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Terraform requires a separate installation and CLI binary for each cloud provider to keep environments isolated.

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Terraform only supports one cloud provider per state file, forcing each cloud to use entirely different tooling.