I can't think of a project of any size that terraform would be excessive for. Agree, if you're introducing it to a new team and don't have time to teach the to

I can't think of a project of any size that terraform would be excessive for. Agree, if you're introducing it to a new team and don't have time to teach the tooling that could be problematic. But being somewhat familiar with Terraform I would use it to launch a single EC2 instance. Because it's about as fast to do that as it would be for me to use the AWS Console. It's not that I think Terraform is needed for that small of a project, it's that it adds no cost even for tiny projects.