What do you mean curl doesn't do that? Terraform is literally just calling a REST API. Curl also just calls a REST API. #!/bin/sh curl -d '{"some key": "va

What do you mean curl doesn't do that? Terraform is literally just calling a REST API. Curl also just calls a REST API. #!/bin/sh curl -d '{"some key": "value here"}' -H "X-Some-Header: Foo-Bar" https://some-aws-domain/some/rest/api Put that in Git; now you have Infrastructure as Code. IaC is not some holy scepter ordained to us by God. It's literally just a version-controlled list of commands that call SaaS APIs. It's not special or magical. And Terraform doesn't do it any better than a bunch of curls in a shell script. The only reason to use Terraform is it's a standard way for a large group of people to make changes to the same thing. But if an entire team standardized on a shell script full of curls, that would work just as well. (Better, actually, because you could actually have error handling, auto-healing, importing existing resources, checking if they exist before trying to apply changes... you know, things that are useful for IaC that Terraform does not do)